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Eldritch Evolution

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

453

Decks Running

225

In Decks

1771

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

7.0%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

14.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 17 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 14 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 9 decks
4 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 6 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 5 decks
6 Helga, Skittish Seer 5 decks
7 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 4 decks
8 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 4 decks
9 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 4 decks
10 Marwyn, the Nurturer 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

453 brought · 198 players

Brought to game

453

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=47) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=57) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.9pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

18%

16%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 4% (2 / 49 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

49 of 100 times cast 49%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.