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Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

251

Decks Running

124

In Decks

723

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

85 instances

1.2%

Library

14.1%

Battlefield

24.7%

Graveyard

21.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 78 decks
2 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 14 decks
3 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor 11 decks
4 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 3 decks
5 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
7 Gorion, Wise Mentor 2 decks
8 Alphinaud Leveilleur 1 decks
9 Baral, Chief of Compliance 1 decks
10 Eshki Dragonclaw 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

251 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

251

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 29% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=38) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=145).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=32) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

55%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 2% (1 / 42 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

42 of 100 times cast 42%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.