Live Play Data

Black Market

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2225

Decks Running

1049

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=245

21%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 36% (51 / 245 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

2229 brought · 892 players

Brought to game

2229

Ever drawn

480

Reached battlefield

245

Still on board at game end

177

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=219) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1466).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=210).

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 +14.9pp; 95% confidence interval +8.4pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

543 instances

3.9%

Library

32.6%

Battlefield

21.7%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 90 decks
2 Captain N'ghathrod 63 decks
3 Edgar Markov 41 decks
4 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 32 decks
5 Toxrill, the Corrosive 28 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 27 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 26 decks
8 Teysa Karlov 26 decks
9 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 21 decks
10 Maha, Its Feathers Night 16 decks

Card text

Black Market

Enchantment

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B}

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

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

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.