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Grim Servant

{3} {B} · Creature — Zombie Warlock · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
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Times Brought
221
Decks Running
116
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Grim Servant card

Grim Servant

{3} {B}
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

54 instances
33.3%
Battlefield
20.4%
Graveyard
11.1%
Exile
35.2%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

221 brought · 110 players
Brought to game
221
Ever drawn
48
Reached battlefield
30
Still on board at game end
18

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=18) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=123).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=15).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30
0%
T1
10%
T2
20%
T3
10%
T4
10%
T5
47%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 40% (3 / 30 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

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.