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Grave Researcher // Reanimate

· Creature — Troll Warlock // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

664

Decks Running

341

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

Grave Researcher

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

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

Final zone distribution

171 instances

1.8%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

36.8%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Ravenous Codex 26 decks
2 Teval, the Balanced Scale 17 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 15 decks
4 Terra, Herald of Hope 11 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 10 decks
6 Dina, Essence Brewer 10 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 10 decks
8 Celes, Rune Knight 9 decks
9 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 6 decks
10 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

664 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

664

Ever drawn

140

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=79) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=361).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=39).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=88

13%

14%

19%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 18% (11 / 88 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.