Card Preview

Altered Ego

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

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

752

Decks Running

357

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

0 / 0

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

Final zone distribution

150 instances

0.7%

Library

21.3%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 150 decks
2 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 124 decks
3 Zaxara, the Exemplary 15 decks
4 Yuna, Grand Summoner 9 decks
5 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 5 decks
6 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 5 decks
7 Magus Lucea Kane 4 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 3 decks
9 Primo, the Unbounded 3 decks
10 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

752 brought · 341 players

Brought to game

752

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=48) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=411).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=57).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=68

12%

15%

54%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.