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Grimoire of the Dead

{4} · Legendary Artifact — Book · Commander 2019 (C19)
Times Brought
255
Decks Running
127
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

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

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Grimoire of the Dead card

Grimoire of the Dead

{4}
Legendary Artifact — Book
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, 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) · Mythic · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

Final zone distribution

58 instances
27.6%
Battlefield
36.2%
Graveyard
1.7%
Exile
34.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

255 brought · 117 players
Brought to game
255
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=18) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=20).

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 -8.4pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
17%
T4
17%
T5
43%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17
On curve 17% (4 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.