Live Play Data

Sphinx's Tutelage

· Enchantment · Magic Origins (ORI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

416

Decks Running

163

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

13%

17%

33%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 23% (9 / 64 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

416 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

416

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=62) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=268).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=28).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

108 instances

0.9%

Library

40.7%

Battlefield

26.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sphinx's Tutelage

Enchantment

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process. {5}

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Magic Origins (ORI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.