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Bloodghast

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

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Times Brought

1207

Decks Running

593

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

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

Final zone distribution

328 instances

8.2%

Library

33.2%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 138 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 82 decks
3 Edgar Markov 42 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 41 decks
5 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 16 decks
6 Teval, the Balanced Scale 14 decks
7 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 11 decks
8 Zimone and Dina 8 decks
9 Shadow the Hedgehog 7 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1319 brought · 542 players

Brought to game

1319

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

201

Still on board at game end

109

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=151) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=616).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=52).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=201

16%

12%

13%

16%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 23% (32 / 201 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.