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Live Play Data

Riddles in the Dark

{2} {U} · Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
134
Decks Running
85
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
76%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34
0%
T1
12%
T2
9%
T3
12%
T4
12%
T5
29%
T6-9
26%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 10 · max 15
On curve 21% (3 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

134 brought · 77 players
Brought to game
134
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
34
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=31) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=70).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances
2.0%
Battlefield
72.0%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
16.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Riddles in the Dark card

Riddles in the Dark

{2} {U}
Instant
Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
The Hobbit (HOB) · Rare · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.