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Blood Artist

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

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Times Brought

1496

Decks Running

801

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

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

Final zone distribution

356 instances

1.4%

Library

48.3%

Battlefield

30.6%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 86 decks
2 Dina, Essence Brewer 79 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 43 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 38 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 28 decks
6 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 22 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 17 decks
8 Toxrill, the Corrosive 12 decks
9 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 11 decks
10 Athreos, God of Passage 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1498 brought · 666 players

Brought to game

1498

Ever drawn

346

Reached battlefield

289

Still on board at game end

172

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=236) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=867).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=45) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=289

12%

16%

12%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 28% (46 / 289 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

1990 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.