Live Play Data

Gitaxian Probe

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1448

Decks Running

751

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=324

13%

11%

13%

12%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 13% (43 / 324 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

1449 brought · 618 players

Brought to game

1449

Ever drawn

413

Reached battlefield

324

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=281) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=813).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=80).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

468 instances

3.6%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

65.0%

Graveyard

15.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Gitaxian Probe

Sorcery

(

can be paid with either {U}

or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

New Phyrexia (NPH) · Common · Illustrated by Chippy

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.