Live Play Data

Otherworldly Gaze

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

614

Decks Running

275

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=115

13%

12%

11%

19%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 13% (15 / 115 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

617 brought · 261 players

Brought to game

617

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

115

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=102) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=347).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=49).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

212 instances

2.8%

Library

0.9%

Battlefield

56.6%

Graveyard

25.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 32 decks
2 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 30 decks
3 Denzilore Fatehold 20 decks
4 Marvo, Deep Operative 15 decks
5 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 12 decks
6 Neera, Wild Mage 9 decks
7 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 9 decks
8 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 8 decks
9 Massimo, the Magician 7 decks
10 Octavia, Living Thesis 7 decks

Card text

Otherworldly Gaze

Instant

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}

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

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Common · Illustrated by Chris Cold

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.