Live Play Data

Scourglass

· Artifact · Shards of Alara (ALA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

370

Decks Running

172

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

14%

64%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 24% (8 / 58 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

370 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

370

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=51) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=17).

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 -3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -15.3pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

24.7%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

22.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 135 decks
2 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 6 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 4 decks
4 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 4 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 4 decks
6 Belisarius Cawl 3 decks
7 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 1 decks
8 Dr. Madison Li 1 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
10 Kilo, Apogee Mind 1 decks

Card text

Scourglass

Artifact

, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy all permanents except for artifacts and lands. Activate only during your upkeep.

Shards of Alara (ALA) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Cavotta

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.