Live Play Data

Grim Guardian

· Enchantment Creature — Zombie · Journey into Nyx (JOU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

378

Decks Running

200

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

20%

43%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 22% (14 / 69 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

381 brought · 186 players

Brought to game

381

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=62) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=28).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

115 instances

3.5%

Library

38.3%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Grim Guardian

Enchantment Creature — Zombie

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Journey into Nyx (JOU) · Common · Illustrated by Ryan Barger

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.