Live Play Data

Sage of the Beyond

· Creature — Spirit Giant · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

126

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

126 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

126

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=17) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=75).

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 +18.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +42.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

36 instances

22.2%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

25.0%

Exile

11.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 22 decks
2 Kellan, the Kid 13 decks
3 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 6 decks
4 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 4 decks
5 Ranar the Ever-Watchful 4 decks
6 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 3 decks
7 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius 3 decks
8 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 2 decks
9 Daxos of Meletis 2 decks
10 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician 2 decks

Card text

Sage of the Beyond

Creature — Spirit Giant

Flying Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2}

less to cast. Foretell {4}

(During your turn, you may pay {2}

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

5 / 5

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

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.