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Live Play Data

Dazzling Sphinx

{3} {U} {U} · Creature — Sphinx · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
507
Decks Running
209
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
61%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=85
0%
T1
2%
T2
5%
T3
16%
T4
22%
T5
47%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 46% (19 / 85 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

507 brought · 197 players
Brought to game
507
Ever drawn
139
Reached battlefield
85
Still on board at game end
40

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=79) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=48).

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 +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +25.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances
2.5%
Library
25.2%
Battlefield
32.1%
Graveyard
10.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Dazzling Sphinx card

Dazzling Sphinx

{3} {U} {U}
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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.