Live Play Data

Bloodghast

· Creature — Vampire Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1333

Decks Running

682

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=221

14%

12%

11%

41%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 18% (30 / 221 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1337 brought · 607 players

Brought to game

1337

Ever drawn

299

Reached battlefield

221

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=207) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=849).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=68).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

332 instances

1.8%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

44.0%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 135 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 116 decks
3 Edgar Markov 49 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 35 decks
5 Teval, the Balanced Scale 30 decks
6 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 20 decks
7 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 11 decks
8 Ayara, First of Locthwain 9 decks
9 Teysa Karlov 9 decks
10 Zimone and Dina 9 decks

Card text

Bloodghast

Creature — Vampire Spirit

This creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lixin Yin

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.