Live Play Data

Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead

· Creature — Orc Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

127

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=17

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

127 brought · 52 players

Brought to game

127

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=16) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=84).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=17).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

38 instances

18.4%

Battlefield

47.4%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

28.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Ravenous Codex 23 decks
2 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza 2 decks
3 Laughing Jasper Flint 2 decks
4 The Ancient One 2 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 2 decks
6 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 1 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 1 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 1 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 1 decks

Card text

Cheerful Osteomancer

Creature — Orc Warlock

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

4 / 2

Raise Dead

Sorcery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Diego Gisbert

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.