Live Play Data

Eldritch Evolution

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1957

Decks Running

812

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

11%

18%

51%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 9% (17 / 227 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1957 brought · 681 players

Brought to game

1957

Ever drawn

457

Reached battlefield

227

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=209) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=1233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=205).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

521 instances

4.2%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

16.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 41 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 38 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 20 decks
4 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 19 decks
5 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 18 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 18 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 16 decks
8 Animar, Soul of Elements 15 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 14 decks
10 Thrasios, Triton Hero 13 decks

Card text

Eldritch Evolution

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.

Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.