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Thirst for Knowledge

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

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Times Brought

630

Decks Running

345

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

Thirst for Knowledge

Instant

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Smallwood

Final zone distribution

146 instances

1.4%

Library

0.7%

Battlefield

71.2%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 63 decks
2 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 59 decks
3 Kilo, Apogee Mind 43 decks
4 Dr. Madison Li 30 decks
5 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 11 decks
6 Golbez, Crystal Collector 8 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 8 decks
8 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 6 decks
9 Liberty Prime, Recharged 5 decks
10 Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

630 brought · 311 players

Brought to game

630

Ever drawn

130

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=60) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=25).

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 -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=85

18%

12%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 13% (7 / 85 cast on T3) 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.