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Creature — Sphinx
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Live Play Data
Consecrated Sphinx
4%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1784
Decks Running
796
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
First-cast turn
n=319
1%
T1
2%
T2
6%
T3
13%
T4
15%
T5
52%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
19
On curve
57%
(63 / 319 cast on T6)
Cast same turn as drawn
35%
The "good card" funnel
1784 brought · 643 playersBrought to game
1784
Ever drawn
530
Reached battlefield
319
Still on board at game end
193
Once cast, 61% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ +17.3pp
Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=293) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1022).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=195).
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 +23.1pp; 95% confidence interval +17.3pp to +28.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
583 instances5.8%
Library
33.1%
Battlefield
23.0%
Graveyard
10.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Ur-Sphinx
58 decks
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2
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
52 decks
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3
Ms. Bumbleflower
37 decks
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4
Whtz, the Bibliophile
24 decks
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5
Animar, Soul of Elements
23 decks
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6
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
23 decks
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7
Satoru Umezawa
17 decks
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8
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
15 decks
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9
The Astonishing Ant-Man
15 decks
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10
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
14 decks
Card text
Consecrated Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
4 / 6
Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Mark Zug
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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.