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Grim Servant

· Creature — Zombie Warlock · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

128

Decks Running

In Decks

531

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Grim Servant

Creature — Zombie Warlock

Menace When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B}

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Astruga

Final zone distribution

41 instances

7.3%

Library

19.5%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 9 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 8 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 5 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks
5 Acererak the Archlich 2 decks
6 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar 2 decks
7 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 2 decks
8 Torgaar, Famine Incarnate 2 decks
9 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 2 decks
10 Ardyn, the Usurper 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

128 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

128

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=20) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=80).

Observed gap +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +30.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

23%

27%

23%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 36% (5 / 22 cast on T4)

22 of 100 times cast 22%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.