Live Play Data

Buried Alive

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1146

Decks Running

584

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=176

18%

19%

16%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 26% (32 / 176 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1147 brought · 476 players

Brought to game

1147

Ever drawn

286

Reached battlefield

176

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=157) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=655).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=98).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

362 instances

3.0%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

59.7%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Buried Alive

Sorcery

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.