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Part of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
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Artifact — Equipment
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
Live Play Data
Blade of the Bloodchief
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Artifact — Equipment
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
493
Decks Running
260
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
81%
Format
First-cast turn
n=82
12%
T1
11%
T2
10%
T3
9%
T4
10%
T5
39%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
8
· max
12
On curve
12%
(10 / 82 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
57%
The "good card" funnel
493 brought · 254 playersBrought to game
493
Ever drawn
101
Reached battlefield
82
Still on board at game end
59
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.
≥ -6.9pp
Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=73) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=336).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=18).
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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.9pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
109 instances3.7%
Library
54.1%
Battlefield
22.0%
Graveyard
4.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Edgar Markov
98 decks
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2
Clavileño, First of the Blessed
29 decks
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3
Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
17 decks
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4
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
14 decks
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5
The Great Goblin
9 decks
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6
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
6 decks
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7
Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
5 decks
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8
Massacre Girl
4 decks
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9
Massacre Girl, Known Killer
4 decks
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10
Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
4 decks
Card text
Blade of the Bloodchief
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Jung Park
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.