Live Play Data

Lidless Gaze

· Sorcery · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 15% (4 / 34 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=30) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=163).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=22).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.6pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

2.7%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

60.8%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Lidless Gaze

Sorcery

Exile the top card of each player's library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. Flashback {2}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.