Live Play Data

Otherworldly Gaze

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

768

Decks Running

350

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=140

12%

14%

13%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 9% (12 / 140 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

771 brought · 320 players

Brought to game

771

Ever drawn

206

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=120) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=440).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=60).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

257 instances

3.1%

Library

0.8%

Battlefield

56.0%

Graveyard

24.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 40 decks
2 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 37 decks
3 Denzilore Fatehold 27 decks
4 Marvo, Deep Operative 19 decks
5 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 12 decks
6 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 11 decks
7 Massimo, the Magician 10 decks
8 Neera, Wild Mage 10 decks
9 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 9 decks
10 Neerdiv, Devious Diver 9 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.