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Ashnod's Altar

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1418

Decks Running

737

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

Ashnod's Altar

Artifact

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Final zone distribution

323 instances

2.8%

Library

52.3%

Battlefield

17.3%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 36 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 33 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 28 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 26 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 13 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 12 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 10 decks
8 Edgar Markov 10 decks
9 Imotekh the Stormlord 10 decks
10 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1422 brought · 584 players

Brought to game

1422

Ever drawn

291

Reached battlefield

195

Still on board at game end

169

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=170) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=862).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=73) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +3.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=195

13%

15%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (26 / 195 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

1945 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

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.