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Gitaxian Probe

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

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Times Brought

1705

Decks Running

823

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

492 instances

2.8%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

67.7%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 143 decks
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 27 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 25 decks
4 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 23 decks
5 Lord of the Nazgûl 22 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 21 decks
7 Vraska, Soul of Stone 21 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 20 decks
9 Ms. Bumbleflower 19 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 17 decks

The "good card" funnel

1705 brought · 694 players

Brought to game

1705

Ever drawn

444

Reached battlefield

360

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=328) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1027).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=66).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +6.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=360

17%

11%

13%

12%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 17% (62 / 360 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 71%

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.