Live Play Data

Engulf the Shore

· Instant · Game Night 2019 (GN2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

227

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

50%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 17% (3 / 36 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=35) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=132).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=31).

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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

5.2%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

50.6%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 17 decks
2 Charix, the Raging Isle 9 decks
3 Baral, Chief of Compliance 7 decks
4 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 6 decks
5 Kami of the Crescent Moon 5 decks
6 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 3 decks
7 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 3 decks
8 Atemsis, All-Seeing 2 decks
9 Braids, Conjurer Adept 2 decks
10 Fblthp, the Lost 2 decks

Card text

Engulf the Shore

Instant

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Game Night 2019 (GN2) · Rare · Illustrated by Cliff Childs

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.