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Live Play Data
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
Legendary Creature — Insect // Legendary Planeswalker — Grist
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
136
Decks Running
74
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
88%
Format
First-cast turn
n=41
24%
T1
15%
T2
15%
T3
12%
T4
5%
T5
27%
T6-9
2%
T10+
Median
3
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
14
On curve
24%
(10 / 41 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
70%
The "good card" funnel
137 brought · 74 playersBrought to game
137
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
21
Once cast, 60% 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.
≥ -24.1pp
Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=30) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=73).
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 -8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -24.1pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
51 instances7.8%
Library
41.2%
Battlefield
35.3%
Graveyard
9.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Grist, the Hunger Tide
15 decks
-
2
Zask, Skittering Swarmlord
8 decks
-
3
Teval, the Balanced Scale
6 decks
-
4
The Serpent Society
4 decks
-
5
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
4 decks
-
6
Blech, Loafing Pest
3 decks
-
7
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
3 decks
-
8
Xira, the Golden Sting
3 decks
-
9
Aatchik, Emerald Radian
2 decks
-
10
Amzu, Swarm's Hunger
2 decks
Card text
Grist, Voracious Larva
Legendary Creature — Insect
Deathtouch
Whenever Grist or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay
. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.
1 / 2
Grist, the Plague Swarm
Legendary Planeswalker — Grist
+1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill two cards. Put a deathtouch counter on the token if a black card was milled this way.
−2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−6: For each creature card in your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 black and green Insect.
Loyalty 3
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
·
Mythic
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Illustrated by Chris Rahn
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.