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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
214
Decks Running
94
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
42%
Format
First-cast turn
n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
10%
T3
14%
T4
24%
T5
38%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
11
On curve
24%
(3 / 21 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
33%
The "good card" funnel
214 brought · 89 playersBrought to game
214
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
12
Once cast, 57% 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.
≥ -24.2pp
Players who cast this card win 13% of the time (n=17) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=121).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=26).
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 -8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -24.2pp to +6.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
63 instances4.8%
Library
19.0%
Battlefield
39.7%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Gisa and Geralf
27 decks
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2
Anje Falkenrath
10 decks
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3
The Scarab God
7 decks
-
4
Ghoulcaller Gisa
3 decks
-
5
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
3 decks
-
6
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
3 decks
-
7
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
2 decks
-
8
Geralf, the Fleshwright
2 decks
-
9
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
2 decks
-
10
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.