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Eldritch Evolution

· Sorcery · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

1402

Decks Running

598

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

302 instances

3.0%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

21.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 42 decks
2 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 32 decks
3 Flubs, the Fool 19 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 17 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 15 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 14 decks
7 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 11 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 11 decks
9 Thrasios, Triton Hero 11 decks
10 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1414 brought · 500 players

Brought to game

1414

Ever drawn

259

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=106) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=794).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=85).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=127

13%

19%

50%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 6% (5 / 127 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.