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Open the Graves

· Enchantment · Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)

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Times Brought

668

Decks Running

341

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

15.5%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

48.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 174 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 50 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 28 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 8 decks
5 The Scarab God 8 decks
6 Gisa, the Hellraiser 5 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks
8 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 5 decks
9 Olag and Miau, New Friends 4 decks
10 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

668 brought · 312 players

Brought to game

668

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=45) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=354).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=46).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

17%

54%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 27% (9 / 52 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.