Live Play Data

Sandstone Oracle

· Artifact Creature — Sphinx · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

473

Decks Running

212

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=101

12%

15%

60%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 67% (19 / 101 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

473 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

473

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 29% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=92) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=269).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=48).

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 +22.5pp; 95% confidence interval +11.4pp to +33.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

165 instances

4.2%

Library

17.6%

Battlefield

44.8%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 46 decks
2 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 18 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 12 decks
4 Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas 11 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
6 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 9 decks
7 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded 9 decks
8 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 7 decks
9 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 6 decks
10 Karn, Legacy Reforged 5 decks

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

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.