Live Play Data

Ascend from Avernus

· Sorcery · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

637

Decks Running

306

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

36%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

60%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

637 brought · 274 players

Brought to game

637

Ever drawn

147

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +11.8pp

Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=52) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=423).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=87).

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 +25.6pp; 95% confidence interval +11.8pp to +39.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

171 instances

2.9%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

22.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 13 decks
2 Choco, Seeker of Paradise 13 decks
3 Arcades, the Strategist 9 decks
4 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 9 decks
5 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor 7 decks
6 Athreos, God of Passage 5 decks
7 Captain America, Living Legend 5 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 5 decks
9 Giada, Font of Hope 4 decks
10 Hofri Ghostforge 4 decks

Card text

Ascend from Avernus

Sorcery

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Bruce Brenneise

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.