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Szarel, Genesis Shepherd

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

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Times Brought

272

Decks Running

133

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

17.9%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

272 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

272

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=19) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=162).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=113

16%

28%

18%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 67% (20 / 113 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.