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Sphinx's Approach

· Instant · Reality Fracture (FRA)

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

436 instances

1.8%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

44.3%

Graveyard

30.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1221 brought · 38 players

Brought to game

1221

Ever drawn

366

Reached battlefield

147

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=43) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=20).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.1pp to +31.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=147

15%

16%

50%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 16% (22 / 147 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.