Live Play Data

Buried Alive

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2710

Decks Running

1261

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=393

15%

18%

15%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 22% (58 / 393 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

2711 brought · 992 players

Brought to game

2711

Ever drawn

647

Reached battlefield

393

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=357) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1607).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=225).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

818 instances

2.4%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

61.2%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 84 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 57 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 41 decks
4 The Beamtown Bullies 39 decks
5 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 35 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 32 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 22 decks
8 Disa the Restless 21 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 21 decks
10 Teval, the Balanced Scale 21 decks

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.