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Telling Time

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

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Times Brought

133

Decks Running

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

Telling Time

Instant

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one on top of your library, and one on the bottom of your library.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by L.A. Draws

Final zone distribution

31 instances

3.2%

Battlefield

71.0%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

12.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

133 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

133

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=17) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=72).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

17%

39%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 9% (1 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.