Live Play Data

Incarnation Technique

· Sorcery · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

401

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

19%

54%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 35% (10 / 54 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

401 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

401

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=50) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=24).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +30.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

107 instances

3.7%

Library

0.9%

Battlefield

58.9%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 31 decks
2 Breena, the Demagogue 11 decks
3 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 7 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
5 Rivaz of the Claw 4 decks
6 Syr Konrad, the Grim 4 decks
7 Terra, Herald of Hope 4 decks
8 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 3 decks
9 Imotekh the Stormlord 3 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks

Card text

Incarnation Technique

Sorcery

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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.