Live Play Data

Formless Genesis

· Kindred Sorcery — Shapeshifter · Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

301

Decks Running

173

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

15%

56%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 8 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 22% (4 / 27 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

301 brought · 171 players

Brought to game

301

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=23) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=178).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=28).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -13.4pp to +21.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

76 instances

3.9%

Battlefield

47.4%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

38.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Formless Genesis

Kindred Sorcery — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Create an X/X colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling and deathtouch, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Poole

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.