Live Play Data

Syphon Mind

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1836

Decks Running

1039

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=272

18%

55%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 13% (20 / 272 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1843 brought · 917 players

Brought to game

1843

Ever drawn

456

Reached battlefield

272

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=243) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=1097).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=156).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

497 instances

2.0%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

64.8%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 200 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 182 decks
3 Captain N'ghathrod 49 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 37 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 34 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 33 decks
7 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 30 decks
8 Edgar Markov 27 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 24 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 19 decks

Card text

Syphon Mind

Sorcery

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Common · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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.