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Game Changer
on the MTG Commander Game Changers list
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#12 green tutor
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Enchantment
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Tempest Remastered (TPR)
, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Live Play Data
Survival of the Fittest
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
983
Decks Running
392
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
First-cast turn
n=136
5%
T1
16%
T2
17%
T3
13%
T4
10%
T5
34%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
14
On curve
21%
(22 / 136 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
37%
The "good card" funnel
983 brought · 333 playersBrought to game
983
Ever drawn
226
Reached battlefield
136
Still on board at game end
99
Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ -2.7pp
Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=110) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=591).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=79).
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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
247 instances4.9%
Library
40.1%
Battlefield
20.2%
Graveyard
8.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Thranduil, the Elvenking
18 decks
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2
Henzie "Toolbox" Torre
17 decks
-
3
Sliver Overlord
10 decks
-
4
Flubs, the Fool
9 decks
-
5
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
9 decks
-
6
Animar, Soul of Elements
8 decks
-
7
Kona, Rescue Beastie
8 decks
-
8
Marwyn, the Nurturer
8 decks
-
9
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
7 decks
-
10
Helga, Skittish Seer
6 decks
Card text
Survival of the Fittest
Enchantment
Tempest Remastered (TPR)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Pete Venters
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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.