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Aberrant Return

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

371

Decks Running

178

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

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

Final zone distribution

82 instances

1.2%

Library

6.1%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 115 decks
2 The Reaper, King No More 12 decks
3 Hidetsugu and Kairi 4 decks
4 The Great Goblin 3 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
7 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 2 decks
8 Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar 2 decks
9 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 2 decks
10 High Perfect Morcant 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

371 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

371

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=22) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=30).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

66%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 9% (1 / 32 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

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.