Live Play Data

Hourglass of the Lost

· Artifact · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

20%

14%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 37% (7 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -21.5pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=32) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=92).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=20).

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 -7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -21.5pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

7.9%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

19.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 17 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
3 Toph, the First Metalbender 5 decks
4 The Tenth Doctor 4 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 3 decks
6 Beza, the Bounding Spring 2 decks
7 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 2 decks
8 Minwu, White Mage 2 decks
9 Rasaad yn Bashir 2 decks
10 Akroma, Vision of Ixidor 1 decks

Card text

Hourglass of the Lost

Artifact

: Add

. Put a time counter on this artifact. {T}

, Remove X time counters from this artifact and exile it: Return each nonland permanent card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) · Rare · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.