Live Play Data

Bloodchief Ascension

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2069

Decks Running

890

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=381

28%

10%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 28% (106 / 381 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 68%

The "good card" funnel

2072 brought · 715 players

Brought to game

2072

Ever drawn

491

Reached battlefield

381

Still on board at game end

272

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=345) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1307).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=93).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.2pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

576 instances

3.6%

Library

47.2%

Battlefield

26.6%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 147 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 91 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 73 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 46 decks
5 Captain N'ghathrod 29 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 27 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 20 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 17 decks
9 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 13 decks
10 Edgar Markov 12 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.