Live Play Data

Personify

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

335

Decks Running

136

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

22%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

335 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

335

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=44) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=230).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=25).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

3.6%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

56.6%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 11 decks
2 Reaper King 8 decks
3 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 6 decks
4 Zidane, Tantalus Thief 5 decks
5 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year 4 decks
6 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 4 decks
7 Olag and Miau, New Friends 4 decks
8 Mister Negative 3 decks
9 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3 decks
10 The Destined Warrior 3 decks

Card text

Personify

Instant

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It's every creature type.)

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.