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Blood Tribute

· Sorcery · Commander 2017 (C17)

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Times Brought

247

Decks Running

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 Tribute

Sorcery

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.) Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Commander 2017 (C17) · Rare · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

Final zone distribution

53 instances

11.3%

Battlefield

52.8%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

28.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 49 decks
2 Astarion, the Decadent 11 decks
3 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose 7 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 5 decks
5 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 3 decks
6 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 2 decks
7 Olivia Voldaren 2 decks
8 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 2 decks
9 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 2 decks
10 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

247 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

247

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=32) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=151).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

55%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 11 · max 14

On curve 26% (6 / 38 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.