Live Play Data

Glimmer of Genius

· Instant · Kaladesh (KLD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

191

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

40%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 20% (2 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 56%

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

192

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=25) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=130).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

43 instances

67.4%

Graveyard

14.0%

Exile

18.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 27 decks
2 Dr. Madison Li 25 decks
3 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 24 decks
4 Liberty Prime, Recharged 10 decks
5 Rex, Cyber-Hound 3 decks
6 Pia Nalaar, Chief Mechanic 2 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
8 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 2 decks
9 Elminster 1 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.