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· Kindred Instant — Shapeshifter · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

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Times Brought

796

Decks Running

393

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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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

Final zone distribution

166 instances

1.2%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

59.6%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

796 brought · 353 players

Brought to game

796

Ever drawn

160

Reached battlefield

116

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=91) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=455).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=29).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=116

12%

16%

51%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 9% (7 / 116 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.