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Peer into the Abyss

{4} {B} {B} {B} · Sorcery · Core Set 2021 (M21)
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Times Brought
926
Decks Running
458
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.

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Peer into the Abyss card

Peer into the Abyss

{4} {B} {B} {B}
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

Final zone distribution

207 instances
5.8%
Library
21.7%
Battlefield
23.7%
Graveyard
9.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

926 brought · 420 players
Brought to game
926
Ever drawn
182
Reached battlefield
89
Still on board at game end
45
≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=61) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=534).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=66).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89
0%
T1
1%
T2
1%
T3
6%
T4
10%
T5
64%
T6-9
18%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 21
On curve 63% (20 / 89 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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.