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Blade of the Bloodchief

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

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Times Brought

265

Decks Running

135

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

51 instances

66.7%

Battlefield

19.6%

Graveyard

13.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 45 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 23 decks
3 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 10 decks
4 The Great Goblin 8 decks
5 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 5 decks
6 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 4 decks
7 Astarion, the Decadent 3 decks
8 Olivia Voldaren 3 decks
9 Berta, Wise Extrapolator 2 decks
10 Red Hulk 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

265 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

265

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=36) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=160).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

39%

15%

17%

10%

T6-9

T10+

Median 2 P25 1 · P75 5 · max 12

On curve 39% (16 / 41 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

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.