Live Play Data

Gitaxian Probe

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

943

Decks Running

515

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=210

14%

13%

11%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 14% (29 / 210 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 66%

The "good card" funnel

943 brought · 426 players

Brought to game

943

Ever drawn

273

Reached battlefield

210

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=182) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=533).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=57).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

303 instances

3.3%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

64.0%

Graveyard

15.2%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.