Live Play Data

Bloodthirsty Blade

· Artifact — Equipment · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

488

Decks Running

256

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=79

11%

19%

10%

35%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 14% (7 / 79 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

488 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

488

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -12.5pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=74) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=333).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=25).

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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.5pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

119 instances

5.0%

Library

49.6%

Battlefield

23.5%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 22 decks
2 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 18 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 14 decks
4 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 14 decks
5 Queen Marchesa 13 decks
6 Kardur, Doomscourge 12 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 11 decks
8 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 10 decks
9 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant 8 decks
10 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 8 decks

Card text

Bloodthirsty Blade

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) {1}

: Attach this Equipment to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Kang

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.