Live Play Data

Eldritch Evolution

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1498

Decks Running

644

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=171

16%

15%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 11% (13 / 171 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1498 brought · 552 players

Brought to game

1498

Ever drawn

352

Reached battlefield

171

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=158) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=941).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=160).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

406 instances

4.4%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 37 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 35 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
4 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 17 decks
5 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 14 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 14 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 11 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 11 decks
9 Thranduil, the Elvenking 11 decks
10 Flubs, the Fool 10 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 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.