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Garrison Excavator

· Creature — Orc Sorcerer · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

100

Decks Running

In Decks

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Garrison Excavator

Creature — Orc Sorcerer

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

3 / 4

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Final zone distribution

33 instances

27.3%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

27.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 8 decks
2 Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch 2 decks
3 Gau, Feral Youth 1 decks
4 Grumgully, the Generous 1 decks
5 Hofri Ghostforge 1 decks
6 Iroas, God of Victory 1 decks
7 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 1 decks
8 Juri, Master of the Revue 1 decks
9 Massimo, the Magician 1 decks
10 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

100 brought · 22 players

Brought to game

100

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=19) , vs 37% when it never left the library (n=62).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval -13.1pp to +36.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

20%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 45% (4 / 20 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.