Live Play Data

Mesmeric Orb

· Artifact · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1084

Decks Running

504

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=217

11%

19%

13%

11%

10%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 30% (42 / 217 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1085 brought · 441 players

Brought to game

1085

Ever drawn

256

Reached battlefield

217

Still on board at game end

130

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=203) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=626).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=34).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

344 instances

4.4%

Library

37.8%

Battlefield

36.6%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mesmeric Orb

Artifact

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by David Martin

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.