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Ominous Seas

· Enchantment · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

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Times Brought

350

Decks Running

202

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

Ominous Seas

Enchantment

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2}

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Vincent Proce

Final zone distribution

111 instances

3.6%

Library

41.4%

Battlefield

19.8%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 14 decks
2 Whtz, the Bibliophile 9 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 8 decks
4 Gavi, Nest Warden 7 decks
5 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 6 decks
6 Bard, King of Dale 6 decks
7 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 5 decks
8 Flubs, the Fool 5 decks
9 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 4 decks
10 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

350 brought · 198 players

Brought to game

350

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=49) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=186).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=36).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

12%

10%

13%

10%

20%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 22% (6 / 60 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.