Live Play Data

Scapeshift

· Sorcery · Core Set 2019 (M19)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1182

Decks Running

515

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=154

14%

68%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 9% (9 / 154 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1183 brought · 450 players

Brought to game

1183

Ever drawn

285

Reached battlefield

154

Still on board at game end

≥ +10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=144) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=728).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=116).

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 +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval +10.6pp to +26.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

356 instances

4.2%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

52.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Scapeshift

Sorcery

Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Core Set 2019 (M19) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.