Grim Servant

Creature — Zombie Warlock

Menace
When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

In the last 30 days 0.9% of Commander decks played it (53 of 6150). Most played in K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Grim Servant in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Premier Draft	53.0%	-2.1	+0.9	15572
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3), Sealed	50.8%	-5.2	-5.6	720

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Legality

Constructed

Standard Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Not legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Commander Other periods →

In 53 of 6150 decks (0.9%).

Share of decks

0.9%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

53 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

1.0

in the main deck

Win rate

35%

17 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth	0.8%	21%
Rowan, Scion of War	0.7%	73%
Tasigur, the Golden Fang	0.1%	11%
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + Thrasios, Triton Hero	0.1%	33%
Francisco, Fowl Marauder + Thrasios, Triton Hero	0.1%	25%
Baron Helmut Zemo	0.1%	25%
Varolz, the Scar-Striped	0.0%	50%
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver	0.0%	50%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Dark Ritual	100%	2.5
Sol Ring	98%	1.0
Demonic Tutor	96%	2.0
Vampiric Tutor	94%	1.9
Mana Vault	94%	1.1
Chrome Mox	94%	1.0
Lotus Petal	94%	1.0
Gemstone Caverns	94%	1.0
Mox Diamond	87%	1.0
Mox Amber	85%	1.3

Best win rate

Deck	Record
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Josh G [[Team04]] in MBG Commanderpalooza #3 (TimeTwister event)	3-2 60%
Baron Helmut Zemo Alejandro "Pro" Proestakis in 2do Clasificatorio Nacional cEDH 2026 Sede Antofagasta	3-2 60%
Rowan, Scion of War Samuele Serra in Monkeys for charity - European cEDH Championship Qualifier	3-3 50%
Rowan, Scion of War Joseph Key [LTB] in Commander Invitational Qualifier - Gamer Geeks	2-3 40%
Rowan, Scion of War Danny Hibbard in Tabletop Tavern \| Win-A-Dual cEDH Tournament - OCTOBER 2026	2-4 33%
Rowan, Scion of War Justin Collazo in The CEDH Witching Hour	0-5 0%
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Micah Noel Rogers in Trainer J's 100% Proxy Legal CEDH Tournament	0-5 0%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Rowan, Scion of War Israel Suzuki, 25 Oct	1 main	#21 0-3
Rowan, Scion of War Max Winkelmann, 25 Oct	1 main	#24 0-2
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Alan Stephens, 24 Oct	1 main	#6 1-1
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth Seth Davenport, 24 Oct	1 main	#20 0-3
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools + Thrasios, Triton Hero Prophet, 24 Oct	1 main	#22 0-3
Francisco, Fowl Marauder + Thrasios, Triton Hero Randy William Smith, 24 Oct	1 main	#5 2-1
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth x3r0, 24 Oct	1 main	#32 0-4
Rowan, Scion of War Mike Patriarca, 24 Oct	1 main	#5 2-2

No recent decks in: Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander.