Live Play Data

Astarion, the Decadent

· Legendary Creature — Vampire Elf Rogue · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

120

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=75

12%

16%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 53% (18 / 75 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=25) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=185).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=21).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.5pp to +29.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

61 instances

19.7%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

34.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 11 decks
2 Edgar Markov 10 decks
3 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 10 decks
4 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 10 decks
5 Mister Negative 9 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 7 decks
7 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 4 decks
8 Dark Leo & Shredder 4 decks
9 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 4 decks
10 Burakos, Party Leader 3 decks

Card text

Astarion, the Decadent

Legendary Creature — Vampire Elf Rogue

Deathtouch, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, choose one — • Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn. • Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

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

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.