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Thassa's Oracle

{U} {U} · Creature — Merfolk Wizard · Theros Beyond Death (THB)
Times Brought
518
Decks Running
284
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

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

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Thassa's Oracle card

Thassa's Oracle

{U} {U}
Creature — Merfolk Wizard
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
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Theros Beyond Death (THB) · Rare · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

Final zone distribution

183 instances
2.2%
Library
44.8%
Battlefield
13.1%
Graveyard
7.1%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

519 brought · 248 players
Brought to game
519
Ever drawn
164
Reached battlefield
93
Still on board at game end
82

Once cast, 88% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=82) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=238).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=55) — 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 +15.9pp; 95% confidence interval +10.3pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=93
2%
T1
4%
T2
6%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
49%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 6% (4 / 93 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 53%
93 of 100 times cast 93%

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.