Live Play Data

Mind's Dilation

· Enchantment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

528

Decks Running

263

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

66%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 57% (24 / 80 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

531 brought · 247 players

Brought to game

531

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=74) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=328).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=45).

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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +26.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

143 instances

2.1%

Library

42.0%

Battlefield

20.3%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 49 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 29 decks
3 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 20 decks
4 Invisible Woman 19 decks
5 Marvo, Deep Operative 13 decks
6 Tasha, the Witch Queen 7 decks
7 Don Andres, the Renegade 6 decks
8 Kellan, the Kid 6 decks
9 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 5 decks
10 Sen Triplets 5 decks

Card text

Mind's Dilation

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Iain McCaig

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.