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Gitaxian Probe

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

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Times Brought

706

Decks Running

362

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

193 instances

2.6%

Library

5.7%

Battlefield

67.9%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 74 decks
2 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 13 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 12 decks
4 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 12 decks
5 Lord of the Nazgûl 10 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
7 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 9 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 9 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 9 decks
10 Urza, Lord High Artificer 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

706 brought · 318 players

Brought to game

706

Ever drawn

180

Reached battlefield

145

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=114) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=374).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=26).

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 +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=145

25%

10%

12%

11%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 25% (36 / 145 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 76%

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.