Live Play Data

Perplex

· Instant · Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

42%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 4% (0 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=21) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (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 +14.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +35.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

3.2%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

54.0%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 8 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 5 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 5 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
6 Umbris, Fear Manifest 3 decks
7 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 2 decks
8 Davros, Dalek Creator 2 decks
9 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks

Card text

Perplex

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV) · Common · Illustrated by Tsutomu Kawade

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.