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Live Play Data

Gitaxian Probe

{U/P} · Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)
4%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
2436
Decks Running
1170
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=525
12%
T1
8%
T2
11%
T3
13%
T4
12%
T5
38%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20
On curve 12% (63 / 525 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 65%

The "good card" funnel

2437 brought · 955 players
Brought to game
2437
Ever drawn
697
Reached battlefield
525
Still on board at game end
32
≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=498) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1462).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=159).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

792 instances
3.9%
Library
4.0%
Battlefield
62.4%
Graveyard
15.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Gitaxian Probe card

Gitaxian Probe

{U/P}
Sorcery
({U/P} 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.