Live Play Data

Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare

· Creature — Faerie // Instant — Adventure · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

316

Decks Running

159

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

51%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 4% (2 / 57 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

316 brought · 152 players

Brought to game

316

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 33% 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.

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=51) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=178).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38).

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 -12.2pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

106 instances

0.9%

Library

17.9%

Battlefield

23.6%

Graveyard

19.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 102 decks
2 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 15 decks
3 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor 13 decks
4 Alela, Artful Provocateur 3 decks
5 Baral, Chief of Compliance 3 decks
6 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 3 decks
7 Alphinaud Leveilleur 2 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
9 Gorion, Wise Mentor 2 decks
10 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist 2 decks

Card text

Hypnotic Sprite

Creature — Faerie

Flying

2 / 1

Mesmeric Glare

Instant — Adventure

Counter target spell with mana value 3 or less. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Throne of Eldraine (ELD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Irina Nordsol

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.