Live Play Data

Aberrant Return

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

538

Decks Running

248

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=61

56%

T6-9

39%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 16% (7 / 61 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

538 brought · 229 players

Brought to game

538

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=56) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=340).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=57).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

1.4%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

49.7%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 151 decks
2 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 18 decks
3 The Reaper, King No More 16 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
5 The Great Goblin 6 decks
6 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 5 decks
7 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 4 decks
8 Zurgo Helmsmasher 4 decks
9 Homer, the Hermit 3 decks
10 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks

Card text

Aberrant Return

Sorcery

Put one, two, or three target creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Each of them enters with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

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.