Live Play Data

Thirst for Identity

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

128

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

24%

29%

33%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 21 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

128 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

128

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -22.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=18) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=76).

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 -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -22.6pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Battlefield

61.9%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

23.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 13 decks
2 Lyra, Tolarian Archangel 7 decks
3 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 7 decks
4 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 3 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 3 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
7 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 2 decks
8 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
9 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 2 decks
10 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 2 decks

Card text

Thirst for Identity

Instant

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a creature card.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Danny Schwartz

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.