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Syphon Mind

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

956

Decks Running

539

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

182 instances

1.1%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

61.0%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 157 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 110 decks
3 Captain N'ghathrod 19 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 19 decks
5 Edgar Markov 17 decks
6 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 17 decks
7 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 14 decks
8 Kardur, Doomscourge 11 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 10 decks
10 Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

956 brought · 485 players

Brought to game

956

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=60) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=524).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=57).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=82

12%

11%

55%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 20% (10 / 82 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.