Overflowing Basin
79% of drawn Overflowing Basins are cast before the game ends, and decks that resolved it won 53% of the time compared to 43% when it stayed in the library — a +10.8-point directional edge in 107 tracked games.
Overflowing Basin shows up in 3.4% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live — a narrow but focused slice of the {G}{U} metagame. Among the 66 decks that include it, nearly four in five drawn copies get cast, giving it a draw-to-play rate of 79%.
The win-rate gap is the most striking early signal. Participations where Overflowing Basin hit the battlefield won at a 53% clip. Participations where it sat in the library all game won at 43%. That +10.8-point delta is directional, not conclusive — the cast bucket sits at 30 observations — but it points consistently toward the card doing real work when it resolves. Baseline win rate in a four-player pod is roughly 25%, so both numbers run well above expectation, which likely reflects deck-quality selection: the decks playing this card tend to be well-tuned Simic builds.
Its color restriction to {G}{U} keeps it out of most collections, but within that slice it has found a firm home, led by Zimone, Infinite Analyst, which accounts for 46 of the 66 tracked decks running it.
- 3.4% inclusion rate across all tracked decks — tightly concentrated in {G}{U} builds
- 79% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
- +10.8 percentage-point win-rate lift when cast vs. sitting in the library
- T3 median first-cast turn, landing ahead of a typical 4-drop curve
- 97% battlefield stickiness once cast — nearly nothing removes it
- 46 of 66 tracked decks running it are helmed by Zimone, Infinite Analyst
First-cast turn
n=30The "good card" funnel
128 brought118 copies were brought to games, 34 were drawn, 30 of those were cast, and 29 were still on the battlefield at game end — a tight chain with very little lost between cast and survival.
Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=30) , vs 42% when it never left the library (n=89).
Final zone distribution
128 instances80 of 118 brought instances ended in the library — the structural baseline for a singleton in a 100-card deck — while 29 remained on the battlefield, accounting for nearly every copy that was actually cast.
Top commanders running this card
by deck count-
1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
48 decks
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2
Me, the Immortal
13 decks
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3
Ms. Bumbleflower
8 decks
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4
Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
8 decks
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5
The Wise Mothman
6 decks
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6
Omo, Queen of Vesuva
5 decks
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7
Galadriel of Lothlórien
4 decks
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8
Quandrix, the Proof
3 decks
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9
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
2 decks
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10
Arcades, the Strategist
2 decks
Zimone, Infinite Analyst accounts for 46 of 66 tracked decks running Overflowing Basin, making this a heavily Zimone-centric card in the current dataset rather than a broad {G}{U} staple.
How often is Overflowing Basin drawn in a Commander game? ▾
Across 107 tracked games, Overflowing Basin was drawn in 29% of the deck-participations that included it. That's modestly above the 25% baseline you'd expect for a singleton in a 100-card deck, though the sample is still growing. Of the 34 instances that reached a player's hand, 30 were cast — a 79% draw-to-play rate that suggests players rarely sit on it once they have it.
What turn does Overflowing Basin usually enter the battlefield? ▾
The median first-cast turn is 3, with the 25th percentile at turn 2 and the 75th at turn 5. The distribution shows 10 of the 30 recorded casts landing on turn 2, which makes sense: a land that taps for {G}{U} at the cost of 1 mana is often played out quickly to fix mana early. A small tail extends to turn 13, likely late-game topdecks.
Does casting Overflowing Basin actually help you win? ▾
What we see so far is directional. Decks that cast it won 53% of the time (16 of 30 participations). Decks where it stayed in the library the whole game won 43% of the time (34 of 80). The +10.8-point gap is consistent across the dataset, but with only 30 cast observations it would be premature to call it conclusive. The elevated win rates across both buckets likely reflect that the decks running this card are well-constructed {G}{U} lists.
Why does Overflowing Basin have such high battlefield stickiness? ▾
At 97%, the stickiness figure means nearly every resolved copy was still on the battlefield when the game ended. That's typical for a basic-land-style mana fixer with no special ability to trigger removal. Lands are among the hardest permanent types to interact with in Commander — mass land destruction is rare — so once this hits play, it stays.
Is Overflowing Basin legal in Commander? ▾
Yes. Overflowing Basin is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Pauper, or Brawl. Its color identity is {G}{U}, which restricts it to commanders whose color identity includes both green and blue.
Which commanders most often run Overflowing Basin? ▾
Zimone, Infinite Analyst dominates the sample with 46 of the 66 tracked decks — roughly 70% of all inclusions. The next largest clusters are Me, the Immortal (13 decks) and Ms. Bumbleflower (8 decks). The remaining commanders each appear in 7 or fewer decks. The concentration around Zimone suggests the card may be particularly synergistic with that commander's {G}{U} gameplan, though the dataset is not yet large enough to quantify the effect.