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Monster Manual // Zoological Study

{3} {G} {2} {G} · Artifact — Book // Sorcery — Adventure · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
Times Brought
673
Decks Running
291
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Monster Manual // Zoological Study card

Monster Manual

{3} {G}
Artifact — Book
{1}{G}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Zoological Study

{2} {G}
Sorcery — Adventure
Mill five cards, then return a creature card milled this way to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by David Gaillet

Final zone distribution

145 instances
7.6%
Library
48.3%
Battlefield
8.3%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

674 brought · 248 players
Brought to game
674
Ever drawn
132
Reached battlefield
86
Still on board at game end
70

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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=73) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=423).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=32).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86
1%
T1
3%
T2
14%
T3
24%
T4
19%
T5
38%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9
On curve 43% (21 / 86 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.