Live Play Data

Grisly Salvage

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

810

Decks Running

426

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=125

14%

15%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 11% (11 / 125 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

811 brought · 397 players

Brought to game

811

Ever drawn

177

Reached battlefield

125

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=116) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=434).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=48).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

284 instances

3.5%

Library

0.7%

Battlefield

69.7%

Graveyard

13.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Grisly Salvage

Instant

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Dave Kendall

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.