Live Play Data

Bloodchief Ascension

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1479

Decks Running

650

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=282

29%

11%

10%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 29% (81 / 282 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 72%

The "good card" funnel

1482 brought · 529 players

Brought to game

1482

Ever drawn

367

Reached battlefield

282

Still on board at game end

206

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=261) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=928).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=74).

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 +15.2pp; 95% confidence interval +9.1pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

435 instances

3.7%

Library

47.4%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 109 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 67 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 56 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 36 decks
5 Captain N'ghathrod 27 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 22 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 15 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 9 decks
9 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 9 decks
10 The Lord of Pain 9 decks

Card text

Bloodchief Ascension

Enchantment

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Adi Granov

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.