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Bontu's Monument

· Legendary Artifact · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

717

Decks Running

384

In Decks

2538

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Bontu's Monument

Legendary Artifact

Black creature spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Dominaria United Commander (DMC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

Final zone distribution

191 instances

3.7%

Library

50.8%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marrow-Gnawer 29 decks
2 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 26 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 24 decks
4 Rat King, Verminister 16 decks
5 Ayara, First of Locthwain 8 decks
6 Athreos, God of Passage 7 decks
7 Edgar Markov 7 decks
8 Karumonix, the Rat King 7 decks
9 The Scarab God 7 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

717 brought · 340 players

Brought to game

717

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=106) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=457).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=44) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=117

21%

14%

10%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (25 / 117 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

701 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.