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Grave Researcher // Reanimate card art
Live Play Data

Grave Researcher // Reanimate

{2} {B} {B} · Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1659
Decks Running
711
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
66%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=272
0%
T1
4%
T2
15%
T3
14%
T4
15%
T5
39%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16
On curve 19% (41 / 272 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1661 brought · 601 players
Brought to game
1661
Ever drawn
413
Reached battlefield
272
Still on board at game end
129

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=261) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1056).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=133).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

530 instances
2.1%
Library
24.3%
Battlefield
43.8%
Graveyard
10.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Grave Researcher // Reanimate card

Grave Researcher

{2} {B}
Creature — Troll Warlock
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
3 / 3

Reanimate

{B}
Sorcery
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Izzy

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.