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Grave Venerations

· Enchantment · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

431

Decks Running

228

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 Venerations

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Omar Rayyan

Final zone distribution

109 instances

0.9%

Library

59.6%

Battlefield

11.0%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 117 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 15 decks
3 The Reaper, King No More 12 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
5 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 7 decks
6 Dina, Essence Brewer 4 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
8 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight 3 decks
9 High Perfect Morcant 3 decks
10 Rat King, Verminister 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

431 brought · 207 players

Brought to game

431

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ +0.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=51) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=243).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=21).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.0pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71

11%

10%

54%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 21% (8 / 71 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.