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Otherworldly Gaze

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

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

156

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

95 instances

6.3%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

26.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 20 decks
2 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 18 decks
3 Denzilore Fatehold 16 decks
4 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 8 decks
5 Marvo, Deep Operative 6 decks
6 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 5 decks
7 Grolnok, the Omnivore 5 decks
8 Neerdiv, Devious Diver 5 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
10 Neera, Wild Mage 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=40) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=125).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=18).

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 +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

13%

11%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 13% (7 / 53 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

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.