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Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

· Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

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Times Brought

289

Decks Running

141

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

Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

57 instances

7.0%

Library

36.8%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 45 decks
2 Edgar Markov 27 decks
3 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 10 decks
4 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 10 decks
5 Dihada, Binder of Wills 7 decks
6 Terra, Herald of Hope 6 decks
7 Felothar the Steadfast 4 decks
8 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill 2 decks
9 Minthara, Merciless Soul 2 decks
10 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

289 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

289

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=26) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=18).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

10%

17%

27%

29%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 56% (13 / 48 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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.