Live Play Data

Sphinx's Approach

· Instant · Reality Fracture (FRA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

142

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=244

13%

16%

43%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 8% (19 / 244 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

1894 brought · 58 players

Brought to game

1894

Ever drawn

522

Reached battlefield

244

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=68) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=50).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.4pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

603 instances

1.8%

Library

1.3%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

33.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sphinx's Approach

Instant

Draw two cards. Then you may exile this spell and four cards named Sphinx's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Sphinx creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. A deck can have any number of cards named Sphinx's Approach.

Reality Fracture (FRA) · Common · Illustrated by Nathaniel Himawan

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.