Live Play Data

Mind's Dilation

· Enchantment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

962

Decks Running

421

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

65%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 32

On curve 52% (37 / 143 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

965 brought · 392 players

Brought to game

965

Ever drawn

231

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=133) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=593).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=78).

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 +16.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +24.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

256 instances

4.7%

Library

38.3%

Battlefield

21.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.