Live Play Data

Grist, the Hunger Tide

· Legendary Planeswalker — Grist · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

298

Decks Running

180

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

17%

31%

14%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 49% (33 / 108 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

299 brought · 171 players

Brought to game

299

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=54) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=18).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

95 instances

4.2%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

38.9%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Grist, the Hunger Tide

Legendary Planeswalker — Grist

As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Loyalty 3

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

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.