Live Play Data
Thought Scour
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
449
Decks Running
212
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
81%
Format
First-cast turn
n=95
13%
T1
5%
T2
15%
T3
8%
T4
17%
T5
34%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
5
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
17
On curve
13%
(12 / 95 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
47%
The "good card" funnel
449 brought · 205 playersBrought to game
449
Ever drawn
118
Reached battlefield
95
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -5.9pp
Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=83) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=256).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=20).
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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
147 instances2.0%
Library
4.1%
Battlefield
68.7%
Graveyard
14.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Mindskinner
13 decks
-
2
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
10 decks
-
3
Massimo, the Magician
10 decks
-
4
Captain N'ghathrod
9 decks
-
5
Phenax, God of Deception
8 decks
-
6
Saruman of Many Colors
8 decks
-
7
Vivi Ornitier
7 decks
-
8
Grolnok, the Omnivore
6 decks
-
9
Zethi, Arcane Blademaster
6 decks
-
10
Eris, Roar of the Storm
5 decks
Card text
Thought Scour
Instant
Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.
Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Common
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Illustrated by Julie Dillon
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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.