Live Play Data

Firdoch Core

· Kindred Artifact — Shapeshifter · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1069

Decks Running

454

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=163

15%

23%

15%

13%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 43% (38 / 163 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1069 brought · 405 players

Brought to game

1069

Ever drawn

231

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

141

Once cast, 87% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=140) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=701).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=63).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

258 instances

3.1%

Library

54.7%

Battlefield

20.2%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 76 decks
2 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 31 decks
3 The Ur-Sphinx 24 decks
4 The Notary Hobbits 18 decks
5 Beorn the Fierce 15 decks
6 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 12 decks
7 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
8 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 11 decks
9 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 10 decks
10 Homer, the Hermit 9 decks

Card text

Firdoch Core

Kindred Artifact — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {T}

: Add one mana of any color. {4}

: This artifact becomes a 4/4 artifact creature until end of turn.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Common · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

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.