Live Play Data

Glimpse the Impossible

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

681

Decks Running

282

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=111

14%

21%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 22% (15 / 111 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

681 brought · 266 players

Brought to game

681

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=100) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=432).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=47).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

186 instances

4.8%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

62.4%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 45 decks
2 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 18 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 9 decks
5 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 8 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 7 decks
7 Winota, Joiner of Forces 7 decks
8 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 6 decks
9 Prosper, Tome-Bound 6 decks
10 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks

Card text

Glimpse the Impossible

Sorcery

Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, put them into your graveyard, then create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token for each card put into your graveyard this way. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Common · Illustrated by Justine Jones

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.