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Cruel Celebrant

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

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Times Brought

437

Decks Running

229

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

93 instances

45.2%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

19.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 70 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 25 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 22 decks
4 Athreos, God of Passage 13 decks
5 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 8 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 7 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 6 decks
8 Astarion, the Decadent 5 decks
9 Ghave, Guru of Spores 4 decks
10 Nethroi, Apex of Death 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

437 brought · 215 players

Brought to game

437

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=60) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=250).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71

21%

14%

15%

13%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 27% (15 / 71 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.