Live Play Data

Syphon Mind

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1368

Decks Running

798

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=217

17%

52%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 14% (16 / 217 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1375 brought · 710 players

Brought to game

1375

Ever drawn

354

Reached battlefield

217

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=199) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=803).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=120).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

384 instances

2.1%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

64.1%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 156 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 154 decks
3 Captain N'ghathrod 35 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 30 decks
5 Kardur, Doomscourge 28 decks
6 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 26 decks
7 Edgar Markov 19 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 19 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 13 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.