Live Play Data

Altered Ego

· Creature — Shapeshifter · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

511

Decks Running

249

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

11%

62%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

514 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

514

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=59) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=315).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=55).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

136 instances

2.2%

Library

19.9%

Battlefield

33.8%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 97 decks
2 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 69 decks
3 Zaxara, the Exemplary 13 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 10 decks
5 Magus Lucea Kane 8 decks
6 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 6 decks
7 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 5 decks
8 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 4 decks
9 Helga, Skittish Seer 3 decks
10 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 2 decks

Card text

Altered Ego

Creature — Shapeshifter

This spell can't be countered. You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.