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Blood Artist

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

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Times Brought

4037

Decks Running

1961

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

888 instances

1.4%

Library

43.9%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 211 decks
2 Dina, Essence Brewer 165 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 123 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 106 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 56 decks
6 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 46 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 44 decks
8 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 35 decks
9 Toxrill, the Corrosive 31 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 30 decks

The "good card" funnel

4039 brought · 1507 players

Brought to game

4039

Ever drawn

844

Reached battlefield

700

Still on board at game end

390

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=534) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2232).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=101).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=700

11%

15%

12%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 26% (104 / 700 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.