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Part of Modern Horizons 3
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Sorcery
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
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Buried Alive
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Sorcery
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
3%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
406
Decks Running
217
In Decks
1892
Decklist Inclusion
3%
Format
Final zone distribution
135 instances3.7%
Library
1.5%
Battlefield
58.5%
Graveyard
14.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Terra, Herald of Hope
12 decks
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2
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
10 decks
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3
Disa the Restless
7 decks
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4
Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
7 decks
-
5
The Scarab God
6 decks
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6
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
5 decks
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7
Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
5 decks
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8
Baron Helmut Zemo
4 decks
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9
Betor, Ancestor's Voice
4 decks
-
10
Coram, the Undertaker
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
407 brought · 184 playersBrought to game
407
Ever drawn
106
Reached battlefield
66
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -4.3pp
Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=65) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=250).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=38) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=66
0%
T1
3%
T2
24%
T3
17%
T4
11%
T5
38%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
12
On curve
27%
(16 / 66 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
30%
66 of 100 times cast
66%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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.