Live Play Data

Perplex

· Instant · Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

157

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

14%

48%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 5% (0 / 21 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

157 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

157

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=19) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=91).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=15).

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 +18.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +40.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

1.9%

Battlefield

55.8%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 4 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 3 decks
6 Umbris, Fear Manifest 3 decks
7 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 2 decks
8 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 2 decks
10 Lord of the Nazgûl 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.