Live Play Data

Grisly Salvage

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

254

Decks Running

156

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

11%

16%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 13% (5 / 45 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

255 brought · 143 players

Brought to game

255

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=44) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=138).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +20.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

94 instances

4.3%

Library

72.3%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

9.6%

Hand

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.