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Live Play Data

Thief of Sanity

{1} {U} {B} · Creature — Specter · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
538
Decks Running
288
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77
0%
T1
8%
T2
14%
T3
16%
T4
14%
T5
39%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 22% (11 / 77 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

538 brought · 270 players
Brought to game
538
Ever drawn
120
Reached battlefield
77
Still on board at game end
29

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=69) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=344).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=39).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

137 instances
4.4%
Library
21.2%
Battlefield
38.0%
Graveyard
10.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Thief of Sanity card

Thief of Sanity

{1} {U} {B}
Creature — Specter
Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

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.