Live Play Data

Blood for the Blood God!

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

254

Decks Running

114

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

51%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 22

On curve 83% (2 / 35 cast on T11) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

The "good card" funnel

254 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

254

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=30) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=138).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=35).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -13.2pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

6.0%

Library

14.5%

Battlefield

28.9%

Graveyard

16.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Abaddon the Despoiler 28 decks
2 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 9 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 8 decks
4 Magar of the Magic Strings 8 decks
5 The Infamous Cruelclaw 6 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 6 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 3 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.