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Syphon Mind

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

747

Decks Running

439

In Decks

2646

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

204 instances

2.5%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 95 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 89 decks
3 Kardur, Doomscourge 17 decks
4 Captain N'ghathrod 16 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 15 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 13 decks
7 Edgar Markov 11 decks
8 Silverquill, the Disputant 9 decks
9 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 9 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

752 brought · 401 players

Brought to game

752

Ever drawn

186

Reached battlefield

119

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=105) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=446).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=57) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=119

14%

57%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 11% (7 / 119 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

728 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.