Live Play Data

Bontu's Monument

· Legendary Artifact · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1190

Decks Running

611

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=197

20%

16%

11%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (40 / 197 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

1190 brought · 517 players

Brought to game

1190

Ever drawn

274

Reached battlefield

197

Still on board at game end

160

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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=183) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=782).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=71).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

307 instances

3.3%

Library

52.1%

Battlefield

18.2%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 47 decks
2 Marrow-Gnawer 45 decks
3 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 41 decks
4 Rat King, Verminister 25 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 15 decks
6 Edgar Markov 14 decks
7 Karumonix, the Rat King 13 decks
8 Athreos, God of Passage 12 decks
9 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 12 decks
10 Ardyn, the Usurper 10 decks

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

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.