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

369

Decks Running

151

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=96

17%

60%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 51% (23 / 96 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

369 brought · 149 players

Brought to game

369

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=33) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=27).

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 +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +30.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

19.0%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

12.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 13 decks
2 Edgar Markov 12 decks
3 Mister Negative 12 decks
4 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 12 decks
5 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 11 decks
6 Dark Leo & Shredder 9 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 7 decks
8 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 4 decks
9 Elenda, Saint of Dusk 4 decks
10 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 4 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 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.