Live Play Data

Open the Graves

· Enchantment · Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

896

Decks Running

408

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

15%

61%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 19% (12 / 80 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

897 brought · 381 players

Brought to game

897

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=73) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=596).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=77).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

193 instances

4.1%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

26.4%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 178 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 47 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 41 decks
4 The Scarab God 14 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 12 decks
6 Olag and Miau, New Friends 11 decks
7 Ayara, First of Locthwain 9 decks
8 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 5 decks
9 Varina, Lich Queen 5 decks
10 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 5 decks

Card text

Open the Graves

Enchantment

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Vincent Proce

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.