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Irenicus's Vile Duplication

· Sorcery · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

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Times Brought

252

Decks Running

143

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Oleksandr Kozachenko

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 25 decks
2 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 6 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 5 decks
4 Lord of the Nazgûl 4 decks
5 Quandrix, the Proof 4 decks
6 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
7 Gandalf, Party Guest 3 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
9 Magnus the Red 3 decks
10 Orvar, the All-Form 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

252 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

252

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=17) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=24) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.