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· Artifact — Book · Commander 2021 (C21)

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Times Brought

142

Decks Running

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.

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Venser's Journal

Artifact — Book

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Christopher Moeller

Final zone distribution

37 instances

29.7%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

48.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 4 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 3 decks
3 Hope Estheim 3 decks
4 Professor Hulk 3 decks
5 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 2 decks
6 Kami of the Crescent Moon 2 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
8 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 2 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 2 decks
10 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

142 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

142

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

12 of 100 times cast 12%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.