Live Play Data

Glimmer of Genius

· Instant · Kaladesh (KLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

322

Decks Running

161

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

51%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 17% (4 / 41 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

323 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

323

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=40) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=214).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=22).

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 +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +24.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

73 instances

2.7%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

12.3%

Exile

27.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 43 decks
2 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 40 decks
3 Dr. Madison Li 37 decks
4 Liberty Prime, Recharged 18 decks
5 Rex, Cyber-Hound 4 decks
6 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 3 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
8 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 2 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks
10 Elminster 1 decks

Card text

Glimmer of Genius

Instant

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You get {E}

(two energy counters).

Kaladesh (KLD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Tommy Arnold

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.