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Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare

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

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Times Brought

293

Decks Running

156

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

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

86 instances

4.7%

Library

11.6%

Battlefield

30.2%

Graveyard

19.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 104 decks
2 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 13 decks
3 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor 11 decks
4 Talion, the Kindly Lord 4 decks
5 Obyra, Dreaming Duelist 3 decks
6 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
7 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 2 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
9 Alphinaud Leveilleur 1 decks
10 A-Vivi Ornitier 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

297 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

297

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 24% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

39%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 11 · max 20

On curve 10% (1 / 41 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.