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Bontu's Monument

· Legendary Artifact · Dominaria United Commander (DMC)

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Times Brought

1895

Decks Running

913

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

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

365 instances

2.5%

Library

60.5%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 171 decks
2 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 69 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 55 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 41 decks
5 Rat King, Verminister 34 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 22 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 19 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 18 decks
9 Karumonix, the Rat King 18 decks
10 Ardyn, the Usurper 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1895 brought · 744 players

Brought to game

1895

Ever drawn

330

Reached battlefield

255

Still on board at game end

221

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=192) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=53).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=255

17%

19%

13%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 37% (48 / 255 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.