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Eternal Witness

· Creature — Human Shaman · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1268

Decks Running

665

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

Eternal Witness

Creature — Human Shaman

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

2 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

296 instances

2.4%

Library

37.2%

Battlefield

25.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 20 decks
2 Teval, the Balanced Scale 20 decks
3 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 16 decks
4 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 16 decks
5 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 16 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 13 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 10 decks
8 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 10 decks
9 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 8 decks
10 Nethroi, Apex of Death 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

1270 brought · 536 players

Brought to game

1270

Ever drawn

259

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

110

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=141) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=759).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=76) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.3pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=163

10%

14%

13%

48%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 13% (16 / 163 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

1682 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.