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Sandstone Oracle

· Artifact Creature — Sphinx · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

138

Decks Running

In Decks

466

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sandstone Oracle

Artifact Creature — Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

Final zone distribution

37 instances

5.4%

Library

16.2%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

13.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 10 decks
2 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded 6 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 5 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 5 decks
5 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 4 decks
6 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 3 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
8 Karn, Legacy Reforged 3 decks
9 Sami, Wildcat Captain 3 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

138

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=17) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=88).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +38.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.