Live Play Data

Clockspinning

· Instant · Time Spiral (TSP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

133

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

12%

14%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 51 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

271 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

271

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=48) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=147).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=27).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

93 instances

5.4%

Library

6.5%

Battlefield

44.1%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tom Bombadil 39 decks
2 The Tenth Doctor 29 decks
3 Orvar, the All-Form 17 decks
4 Rose Tyler 5 decks
5 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 5 decks
6 Jhoira of the Ghitu 4 decks
7 Gandalf of the Secret Fire 3 decks
8 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 2 decks
9 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice 2 decks
10 Kruphix, God of Horizons 2 decks

Card text

Clockspinning

Instant

Buyback

(You may pay an additional {3}

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Time Spiral (TSP) · Common · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.