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Eternal Witness

· Creature — Human Shaman · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

2834

Decks Running

1427

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

667 instances

2.2%

Library

34.9%

Battlefield

26.1%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 40 decks
2 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 38 decks
3 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 35 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 33 decks
5 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 31 decks
6 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 30 decks
7 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 29 decks
8 Animar, Soul of Elements 19 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 19 decks
10 Disa the Restless 18 decks

The "good card" funnel

2836 brought · 1094 players

Brought to game

2836

Ever drawn

590

Reached battlefield

376

Still on board at game end

233

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=293) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1595).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=160).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=376

14%

16%

47%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 11% (30 / 376 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.