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Genesis Ultimatum

· Sorcery · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

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Times Brought

377

Decks Running

169

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

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

Final zone distribution

85 instances

5.9%

Library

7.1%

Battlefield

24.7%

Graveyard

28.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 52 decks
2 Invisible Woman 29 decks
3 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 12 decks
4 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 10 decks
5 Maelstrom Wanderer 9 decks
6 Cecily, Haunted Mage 6 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of All 5 decks
8 The Thing 5 decks
9 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 4 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

377 brought · 167 players

Brought to game

377

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=39) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=27).

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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

13%

55%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 51% (10 / 47 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.