Live Play Data

Harmonize

· Sorcery · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC)

Deck Inclusion

Games Tracked

146

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Harmonize sits in 4.4% of tracked Commander decks, and when drawn it's cast only 49% of the time. median first-cast turn is 7, deep enough into the game that nearly half the copies drawn never make it to the stack.

Harmonize draws three cards for four mana. In green, that's a reliable if unspectacular rate. Across 146 tracked games on Playgroup Live, it appears in 94 of 2,151 distinct decks, a 4.4% inclusion rate that reflects its role as a budget-accessible draw spell rather than a format staple.

The most telling number is draw-to-play: 49% of the time a Harmonize reaches a player's hand, it gets cast before the game ends. That's meaningfully lower than you'd expect from a card players actively chose to include. The median first-cast turn of 7 tells the story. Harmonize costs four mana, but the average player waits until turn 7 to fire it, suggesting it's held for the right moment rather than slammed immediately. Only 40% of drawn copies are cast on the same turn they're drawn.

Green's card draw options have expanded considerably in recent years, which may explain why Harmonize clusters in lists where alternatives are intentionally excluded or where budget constraints apply. Its top commander homes skew toward green-heavy midrange strategies that want a clean, no-strings draw spell.

At a glance

4.4% inclusion rate across tracked Commander decks
49% of drawn Harmonizes are cast before the game ends
T7 median first-cast turn, well past its 4-mana curve
40% same-turn cast rate, players often hold it a turn or two
~1 median turns spent in hand before being cast
94 distinct tracked decks include Harmonize

First-cast turn

n=21

10%

62%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 10% (2 / 21 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

159 brought

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

49%

Of 159 Harmonizes brought to games, 41 were drawn and 21 were cast, a 49% draw-to-play conversion that reflects real mid-game decision-making rather than a reflexive slam.

-11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=21) , vs 40% when it never left the library (n=117).

Final zone distribution

159 instances

73.6%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

15.1%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

117 of 159 brought copies never left the library, the expected fate of a singleton in a 100-card deck, but 24 copies reached the graveyard confirming meaningful cast volume.

Top commanders running this card

by deck count

The top 10 commanders range from 10 decks down to 5, with no single archetype dominating, a sign Harmonize fills a generalist draw-spell slot rather than a synergy role.

Frequently Asked

How often is Harmonize drawn in a Commander game? ▾

In participations where Harmonize was in the deck, it was drawn in about 26% of instances. That's roughly in line with a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 41 instances we observed reach a hand, 21 were eventually cast. The other half were stranded: drawn too late, the game ended, or the player had better priorities.

What turn does Harmonize usually get cast? ▾

Median first-cast turn is 7. The card costs 4 mana, so it's theoretically castable on turn 4, and 2 of 21 observed casts happened exactly on curve. But 19 of 21 casts came after that window. The interquartile range runs from turn 6 to turn 8, a classic mid-to-late-game refill window rather than an early-game accelerant.

Does casting Harmonize correlate with winning? ▾

In our dataset, participations where Harmonize was cast show a 28.6% win rate (6 wins in 21 casts), while participations where it sat in the library the whole game show a 40.2% win rate (47 wins in 117 instances). The cast-vs-library delta is -11.6 percentage points. Both sample sizes are small, so treat this as directional, but the early signal suggests Harmonize tends to appear in lists or game states that were already losing ground. Correlation is not causation: the card does not cause losses, but it may not be rescuing the decks that run it either.

Why is Harmonize's battlefield stickiness so low? ▾

Harmonize is a sorcery. Once it resolves, it draws three cards and goes to the graveyard. There's no permanent to stick on the battlefield. The near-zero stickiness stat is expected and correct. The card's value lives entirely in the three cards it generates.

Is Harmonize legal in Commander? ▾

Yes, Harmonize is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Duel Commander, Brawl, Gladiator, Oathbreaker, and preDH. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or PauperCommander.

Which commanders run Harmonize most often in tracked games? ▾

Bello, Bard of the Brambles leads with 10 decks, followed by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit at 9 each. The spread across the top 10 commanders ranges from 10 decks down to 5, and the color identities vary widely, including some commanders outside green entirely. That breadth suggests Harmonize is not a narrow archetype pick but a general-purpose draw slot across many green and non-green shells running it through some splash or variant ruling.