Live Play Data

Cruel Celebrant

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1093

Decks Running

533

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=206

14%

12%

15%

37%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 19% (28 / 206 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

1094 brought · 484 players

Brought to game

1094

Ever drawn

258

Reached battlefield

206

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=191) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=703).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=44).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

284 instances

1.4%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

39.1%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 143 decks
2 Teysa Karlov 72 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 35 decks
4 Athreos, God of Passage 23 decks
5 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 23 decks
6 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 17 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
8 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 14 decks
9 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 10 decks
10 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 9 decks

Card text

Cruel Celebrant

Creature — Vampire

Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.