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Anowon, the Ruin Sage

· Legendary Creature — Vampire Shaman · Crimson Vow Commander (VOC)

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

105

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

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

Legendary Creature — Vampire Shaman

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature of their choice.

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Crimson Vow Commander (VOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

Final zone distribution

49 instances

53.1%

Battlefield

14.3%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

30.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 52 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 25 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 5 decks
4 Olivia, Crimson Bride 5 decks
5 Olivia Voldaren 3 decks
6 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 2 decks
7 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 1 decks
8 Astarion, the Decadent 1 decks
9 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief 1 decks
10 Drana, Liberator of Malakir 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=27) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=141).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.3pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

20%

37%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 40% (7 / 35 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.