Live Play Data

Timetwister

· Sorcery · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

398

Decks Running

144

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

13%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 11% (5 / 72 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

398 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

398

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=68) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=231).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 46% (n=28).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

12.5%

Library

8.3%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 8 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 8 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 7 decks
4 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 6 decks
6 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 5 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 4 decks
8 Urza, Lord High Artificer 4 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 4 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 3 decks

Card text

Timetwister

Sorcery

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Vintage Masters (VMA) · Bonus · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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.