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Bloodchief Ascension

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

959

Decks Running

507

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

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

Final zone distribution

222 instances

1.8%

Library

51.4%

Battlefield

16.7%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 87 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 44 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 41 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 36 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 20 decks
6 Captain N'ghathrod 16 decks
7 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 11 decks
8 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 10 decks
9 Karlov of the Ghost Council 9 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

959 brought · 435 players

Brought to game

959

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

114

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=95) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=525).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=40).

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 -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +4.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=140

23%

11%

10%

16%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 23% (32 / 140 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 64%

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.