Live Play Data

Dazzling Sphinx

· Creature — Sphinx · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

320

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

15%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 37% (8 / 54 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

320 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

320

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=51) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=33).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +31.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

101 instances

2.0%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

32.7%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Dazzling Sphinx

Creature — Sphinx

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Oriana Menendez

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.