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Legendary Artifact — Book
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Commander 2019 (C19)
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, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.
Live Play Data
Grimoire of the Dead
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Legendary Artifact — Book
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Commander 2019 (C19)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
289
Decks Running
129
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
44%
Format
First-cast turn
n=32
0%
T1
0%
T2
6%
T3
13%
T4
22%
T5
44%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
13
On curve
19%
(4 / 32 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
32%
The "good card" funnel
289 brought · 121 playersBrought to game
289
Ever drawn
73
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
16
Once cast, 50% 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.
≥ -15.4pp
Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=26) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=166).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=33).
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 +0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -15.4pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
87 instances4.6%
Library
18.4%
Battlefield
36.8%
Graveyard
8.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Gisa and Geralf
40 decks
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2
Anje Falkenrath
12 decks
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3
The Scarab God
7 decks
-
4
Ghoulcaller Gisa
4 decks
-
5
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
3 decks
-
6
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
3 decks
-
7
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
3 decks
-
8
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
3 decks
-
9
Geralf, the Fleshwright
2 decks
-
10
Ivora, Insatiable Heir
2 decks
Card text
Grimoire of the Dead
Legendary Artifact — Book
, , Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.
Commander 2019 (C19)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Steven Belledin
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.