Live Play Data

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

· Legendary Creature — Insect Druid · Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

459

Decks Running

235

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=197

17%

29%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 50% (57 / 197 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

459 brought · 208 players

Brought to game

459

Ever drawn

141

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=87) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=263).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 46% (n=42).

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 +19.7pp; 95% confidence interval +9.2pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances

4.5%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

27.3%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

Legendary Creature — Insect Druid

Flying You may play lands from your graveyard. Whenever you sacrifice another nontoken permanent during your turn, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to Szarel's power on up to one other target creature.

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Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.