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Eldritch Evolution

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

490

Decks Running

267

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.

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

109 instances

0.9%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

36.7%

Graveyard

17.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 28 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 14 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 9 decks
4 Flubs, the Fool 8 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 8 decks
6 Sliver Overlord 7 decks
7 Thrasios, Triton Hero 7 decks
8 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 6 decks
9 Slimefoot and Squee 6 decks
10 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 244 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=284).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=39).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

22%

10%

41%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 10% (0 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.