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Buried Alive

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

1755

Decks Running

887

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

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

Final zone distribution

467 instances

1.3%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

62.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 79 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 38 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 29 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 28 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 21 decks
6 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 21 decks
7 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 19 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 18 decks
9 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks
10 The Beamtown Bullies 15 decks

The "good card" funnel

1755 brought · 725 players

Brought to game

1755

Ever drawn

386

Reached battlefield

235

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=186) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=937).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=102).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=235

11%

21%

15%

16%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 34% (50 / 235 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.