Live Play Data

Otherworldly Journey

· Instant — Arcane · Modern Masters 2015 (MM2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

207

Decks Running

109

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

33%

43%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 0% (0 / 30 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

207 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

207

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=27) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=127).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=19).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -12.7pp to +27.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

12.1%

Library

41.4%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

32.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Otherworldly Journey

Instant — Arcane

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Modern Masters 2015 (MM2) · Common · Illustrated by Vance Kovacs

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.