Live Play Data

Blade of the Bloodchief

· Artifact — Equipment · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

334

Decks Running

182

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

11%

15%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 11% (6 / 55 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

334 brought · 181 players

Brought to game

334

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=51) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=236).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

4.2%

Library

51.4%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 68 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 17 decks
3 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 12 decks
4 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 11 decks
5 The Great Goblin 6 decks
6 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 5 decks
7 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 4 decks
8 Massacre Girl 4 decks
9 Olivia Voldaren 3 decks
10 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 3 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 {1}

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.