Live Play Data

Genesis Ultimatum

· Sorcery · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

275

Decks Running

116

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

53%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 47% (5 / 36 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 115 players

Brought to game

276

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=34) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=182).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=25).

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 -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -15.7pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

68 instances

1.5%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

16.2%

Graveyard

35.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 32 decks
2 Invisible Woman 13 decks
3 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 11 decks
4 Maelstrom Wanderer 10 decks
5 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 10 decks
6 Ureni of the Unwritten 5 decks
7 Human Torch 3 decks
8 Ramos, Dragon Engine 3 decks
9 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks

Card text

Genesis Ultimatum

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put any number of permanent cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your hand. Exile Genesis Ultimatum.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.