Live Play Data

Peer into the Abyss

· Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1546

Decks Running

656

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=166

12%

63%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 63% (31 / 166 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1548 brought · 569 players

Brought to game

1548

Ever drawn

335

Reached battlefield

166

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=154) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1014).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=155).

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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

403 instances

3.5%

Library

9.7%

Battlefield

45.2%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 100 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 86 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 43 decks
4 Queza, Augur of Agonies 22 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 20 decks
6 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 17 decks
7 Baron Helmut Zemo 15 decks
8 Rowan, Scion of War 15 decks
9 Witherbloom, the Balancer 15 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 11 decks

Card text

Peer into the Abyss

Sorcery

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Core Set 2021 (M21) · Rare · Illustrated by Izzy

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.