Live Play Data

Planar Genesis

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1131

Decks Running

460

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=199

10%

14%

13%

15%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 10% (19 / 199 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1134 brought · 421 players

Brought to game

1134

Ever drawn

310

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=180) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=672).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=100).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

353 instances

5.7%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

58.9%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Planar Genesis

Instant

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.