Live Play Data

Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

· Legendary Artifact — Book · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

186

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

69%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 23% (3 / 26 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

186

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=24) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=111).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=21).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

5.3%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

14.0%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

Legendary Artifact — Book

When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards. You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Rare · Illustrated by Denys Tsiperko

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.