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Creature — Sphinx
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Live Play Data
Consecrated Sphinx
4%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
2498
Decks Running
1031
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
59%
Format
First-cast turn
n=429
0%
T1
1%
T2
6%
T3
12%
T4
14%
T5
56%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
19
On curve
54%
(87 / 429 cast on T6)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
The "good card" funnel
2498 brought · 818 playersBrought to game
2498
Ever drawn
731
Reached battlefield
429
Still on board at game end
252
Once cast, 59% 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.
≥ +18.5pp
Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=393) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1453).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=273).
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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +18.5pp to +28.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
805 instances5.2%
Library
31.3%
Battlefield
23.7%
Graveyard
10.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Ur-Sphinx
79 decks
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2
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
58 decks
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3
Ms. Bumbleflower
43 decks
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4
Whtz, the Bibliophile
30 decks
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5
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
29 decks
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6
Animar, Soul of Elements
27 decks
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7
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
23 decks
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8
Satoru Umezawa
22 decks
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9
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
17 decks
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10
The Astonishing Ant-Man
17 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.