Live Play Data

Shifting Woodland

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

919

Decks Running

464

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Shifting Woodland sits in 6% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live. When drawn, 77% of copies reach the battlefield, with a median first activation on turn 4.

Shifting Woodland earns its slot in green Commander decks as a land that doubles as a graveyard engine. 6% of tracked decks on Playgroup Live include it, spread across 464 distinct lists in a dataset of 7796 decks.

The draw-to-play figure is 77%, meaning most copies that reach a player's hand eventually hit the battlefield. That high conversion is unsurprising for a land: mana sources are nearly always playable on curve, and the Delirium ability adds a late-game use case that keeps the card relevant deep into the game. Median first play lands on turn 4, which tracks with the early-land pattern, though a wide distribution from turn 1 to turn 13 shows the card is played across very different deck speeds.

Commander lists running this card skew toward graveyard-synergy commanders. Teval, the Balanced Scale and Flubs, the Fool lead the top-commander list, both rewarding diverse card types in the yard. That aligns directly with the Delirium condition, which requires four or more card types among graveyard cards to activate the copy ability.

At a glance

6% of tracked Commander decks include Shifting Woodland
77% of drawn copies reach the battlefield
T4 median first-play turn
88% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
377 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game, indicating broad adoption
35% win rate in games where Shifting Woodland reached the battlefield

First-cast turn

n=201

13%

17%

15%

11%

12%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

920 brought · 377 players

Brought to game

920

Ever drawn

262

Reached battlefield

201

Still on board at game end

177

77%

Of 920 copies brought to games, 262 were drawn, 201 of those were cast, and the majority stayed on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=190) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=547).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=59) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances

3.0%

Library

59.6%

Battlefield

14.5%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Most tracked copies finish on the battlefield or graveyard rather than stuck in the library, reflecting how actively this land gets played and how often the Delirium ability puts it to work.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 24 decks
2 Flubs, the Fool 17 decks
3 The Necrobloom 15 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 15 decks
5 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 14 decks
6 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods 11 decks
7 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 9 decks
8 Toph, the First Metalbender 8 decks
9 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 7 decks
10 Fynn, the Fangbearer 6 decks

The commander list is well-spread across graveyard-synergy strategies in green, with Teval, the Balanced Scale and Flubs, the Fool leading, and no single commander dominating the data.

Card text

Shifting Woodland

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}

: Add

. Delirium — {2}

: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Josu Hernaiz

Frequently Asked

How often is Shifting Woodland drawn in a Commander game?

Across 859 tracked multiplayer Commander games where this card was in the deck, it was drawn 28% of the time. That rate is consistent with a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 262 instances that reached a player's hand, 77% were played before the game ended.

What turn does Shifting Woodland typically get played?

Median first play is turn 4. The distribution runs from turn 1 through turn 13, reflecting the card's dual role: played early as a mana source when a Forest is already in play, or held until mid-game when the Delirium condition can fire. The p25-p75 band sits between turn 2 and turn 6, so most plays cluster in the early-to-mid game.

Does casting Shifting Woodland correlate with winning?

Games where Shifting Woodland reached the battlefield show a 35% win rate across 190 observations, compared to 28% for games where it stayed in the library (547 observations). The +7.0 percentage-point gap is a directional early signal. Both sample sizes are meaningful, but the dataset is still growing, so treat this as a consistent trend rather than a definitive claim.

Is Shifting Woodland legal in Commander?

Yes. Shifting Woodland from Modern Horizons 3 is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Duel Commander, and several Brawl variants. It is not legal in Pioneer, Standard, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. There are no format bans on this card.

Which commanders most often run Shifting Woodland?

On Playgroup Live, Teval, the Balanced Scale and Flubs, the Fool lead with the most decks including this card. Both commanders benefit from diverse card types in the graveyard, which maps directly to the Delirium requirement. Hearthhull, the Worldseed and The Wise Mothman also appear near the top. The commander distribution is notably spread: 377 unique players have brought this card to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 6% of instances.

How does the Delirium ability affect how players use this card?

The activation cost is {2}{G}{G} and requires four or more card types in the graveyard. That condition gates a powerful copy effect behind real graveyard development, which is why the card clusters in graveyard-synergy commanders rather than generic green decks. The wide first-play distribution, reaching into turns 8 and beyond for some copies, suggests players sometimes hold or replay it specifically to fire the Delirium ability rather than just tapping for green mana.