Live Play Data

Blood for the Blood God!

· Instant · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

918

Decks Running

323

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=107

51%

T6-9

38%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 23

On curve 89% (13 / 107 cast on T11) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

918 brought · 295 players

Brought to game

918

Ever drawn

223

Reached battlefield

107

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=100) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=566).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=108).

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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +24.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

258 instances

5.4%

Library

12.0%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

18.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Abaddon the Despoiler 83 decks
2 Magar of the Magic Strings 38 decks
3 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 24 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 19 decks
5 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 18 decks
6 The Infamous Cruelclaw 17 decks
7 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 11 decks
8 Ozai, the Phoenix King 8 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks

Card text

Blood for the Blood God!

Instant

This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Artur Nakhodkin

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.