Live Play Data

Sphinx of Enlightenment

· Creature — Sphinx · Game Night 2019 (GN2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

388

Decks Running

216

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

65%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 32% (14 / 72 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

388 brought · 212 players

Brought to game

388

Ever drawn

115

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=66) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=220).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=35).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

3.3%

Library

27.6%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sphinx of Enlightenment

Creature — Sphinx

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent draws a card and you draw three cards.

5 / 5

Game Night 2019 (GN2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Johan Grenier

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.