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Sphinx of the Second Sun

· Creature — Sphinx · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

261

Decks Running

141

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Sphinx of the Second Sun

Creature — Sphinx

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Antonio José Manzanedo

Final zone distribution

59 instances

1.7%

Library

40.7%

Battlefield

18.6%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Sphinx 26 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 13 decks
3 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 9 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 7 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 7 decks
6 Braids, Conjurer Adept 5 decks
7 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 4 decks
8 Sen Triplets 4 decks
9 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin 4 decks
10 Jhoira of the Ghitu 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

262 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

262

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=25) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=159).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

20%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 87% (4 / 30 cast on T8)

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.