Live Play Data

Eternal Witness

· Creature — Human Shaman · Commander Masters (CMM)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3252

Decks Running

1600

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=529

14%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 8% (31 / 529 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

3256 brought · 1232 players

Brought to game

3256

Ever drawn

843

Reached battlefield

529

Still on board at game end

259

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=485) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2023).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=280).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

955 instances

3.7%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 47 decks
2 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 44 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 42 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 27 decks
5 Yarok, the Desecrated 25 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 24 decks
7 Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 22 decks
8 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 22 decks
9 Disa the Restless 21 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.