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Game Changer
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#3 in Green Commander Staples
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Sorcery
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Ninth Edition (9ED)
Live Play Data
Biorhythm
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
242
Decks Running
83
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
62%
Format
First-cast turn
n=29
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
3%
T4
10%
T5
62%
T6-9
21%
T10+
Median
7
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
13
On curve
72%
(3 / 29 cast on T8)
Cast same turn as drawn
33%
The "good card" funnel
242 brought · 83 playersBrought to game
242
Ever drawn
47
Reached battlefield
29
Still on board at game end
11
≥ +11.6pp
Players who cast this card win 61% of the time (n=28) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=169).
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 +28.0pp; 95% confidence interval +11.6pp to +44.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
52 instances9.6%
Library
21.2%
Battlefield
42.3%
Graveyard
1.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Witherbloom, the Balancer
30 decks
-
2
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
8 decks
-
3
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
7 decks
-
4
Baylen, the Haymaker
2 decks
-
5
Radagast of Rhosgobel
2 decks
-
6
Zaxara, the Exemplary
2 decks
-
7
Absorbing Man
1 decks
-
8
Alaundo the Seer
1 decks
-
9
Aragorn, the Uniter
1 decks
-
10
Arzakon
1 decks
Card text
Biorhythm
Sorcery
Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures they control.
Ninth Edition (9ED)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Ron Spears
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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.