Live Play Data

Blood Artist

· Creature — Vampire · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3228

Decks Running

1580

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=569

14%

12%

35%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 20% (80 / 569 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

3236 brought · 1236 players

Brought to game

3236

Ever drawn

725

Reached battlefield

569

Still on board at game end

244

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=517) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2085).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=137).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

801 instances

1.5%

Library

30.5%

Battlefield

39.8%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 137 decks
2 Dina, Essence Brewer 121 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 116 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 72 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 53 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 34 decks
7 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 27 decks
8 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 24 decks
9 Athreos, God of Passage 23 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 23 decks

Card text

Blood Artist

Creature — Vampire

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

0 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by L.A. Draws

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.