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Live Play Data

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{2} {W} · Kindred Instant — Shapeshifter · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1102
Decks Running
567
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
69%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=167
0%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
7%
T4
16%
T5
59%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17
On curve 1% (2 / 167 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

1102 brought · 517 players
Brought to game
1102
Ever drawn
243
Reached battlefield
167
Still on board at game end
11
≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=157) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=695).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=63).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

274 instances
4.0%
Library
4.0%
Battlefield
61.7%
Graveyard
9.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
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Crib Swap

{2} {W}
Kindred Instant — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.
Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pete Venters

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.