Live Play Data

Astarion's Thirst

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

240

Decks Running

126

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

22%

57%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 124 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=21) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=172).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=19).

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 +19.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +40.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

54.9%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Astarion, the Decadent 12 decks
2 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 11 decks
3 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 8 decks
4 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 8 decks
5 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 5 decks
6 Killian, Ink Duelist 5 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 4 decks
8 Ketramose, the New Dawn 4 decks
9 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 4 decks
10 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 3 decks

Card text

Astarion's Thirst

Instant

Exile target creature. Put X +1/+1 counters on a commander creature you control, where X is the power of the creature exiled this way.

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.