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Incarnation Technique

· Sorcery · Commander 2021 (C21)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

In Decks

594

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

37 instances

5.4%

Library

67.6%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

16.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 15 decks
2 Breena, the Demagogue 4 decks
3 Rivaz of the Claw 4 decks
4 Terra, Herald of Hope 3 decks
5 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 2 decks
6 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy 2 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 2 decks
8 Symbiote Spider-Man 2 decks
9 Acolyte of Bahamut 1 decks
10 Araumi of the Dead Tide 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=17) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=92).

Observed gap +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +39.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.