Live Play Data

Scourglass

· Artifact · Shards of Alara (ALA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

185

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

61%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 30% (6 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

185 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

185

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 30% 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.

≥ -17.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=30) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=112).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -17.0pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

21.3%

Battlefield

48.9%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

21.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 68 decks
2 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 4 decks
3 Breya, Etherium Shaper 3 decks
4 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 2 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 2 decks
6 Brenard, Ginger Sculptor 1 decks
7 Dr. Madison Li 1 decks
8 Kilo, Apogee Mind 1 decks
9 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 1 decks
10 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.