Live Play Data

Investigator's Journal

· Artifact — Book Clue · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

120

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

48%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 11% (3 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

120 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

120

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=25) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=65).

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 -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 53 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks
3 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter 2 decks
4 Freya Crescent 1 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 1 decks
6 Ginger, Queen of Sweets 1 decks
7 Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut 1 decks
8 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 1 decks
9 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth 1 decks
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 1 decks

Card text

Investigator's Journal

Artifact — Book Clue

This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls. {2}

, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card. {2}

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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.