Live Play Data

Eternal Witness

· Creature — Human Shaman · Commander Masters (CMM)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6212

Decks Running

2754

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=973

15%

56%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 8% (58 / 973 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

6216 brought · 2026 players

Brought to game

6216

Ever drawn

1559

Reached battlefield

973

Still on board at game end

506

Once cast, 52% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=890) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3904).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=520).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1787 instances

3.9%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 75 decks
2 Teval, the Balanced Scale 70 decks
3 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 65 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 45 decks
5 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 44 decks
6 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 42 decks
7 The Wise Mothman 36 decks
8 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 35 decks
9 Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 33 decks
10 Yarok, the Desecrated 33 decks

Card text

Eternal Witness

Creature — Human Shaman

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.