Live Play Data

Bontu's Monument

· Legendary Artifact · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1946

Decks Running

959

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=330

12%

24%

15%

11%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 38% (79 / 330 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1946 brought · 795 players

Brought to game

1946

Ever drawn

446

Reached battlefield

330

Still on board at game end

261

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=299) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=102).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

493 instances

2.6%

Library

52.9%

Battlefield

19.9%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 100 decks
2 Marrow-Gnawer 63 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 62 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 56 decks
5 Rat King, Verminister 34 decks
6 Edgar Markov 23 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 21 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 19 decks
9 Karumonix, the Rat King 18 decks
10 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 17 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.