Live Play Data

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

692

Decks Running

361

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=140

18%

16%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 22% (25 / 140 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

693 brought · 343 players

Brought to game

693

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=125) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=426).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=25).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +13.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

206 instances

0.5%

Library

41.7%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 36 decks
2 Teysa Karlov 35 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 20 decks
4 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 16 decks
5 Athreos, God of Passage 15 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
7 Zurgo Stormrender 14 decks
8 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 12 decks
9 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 10 decks
10 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 8 decks

Card text

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Dominaria United (DMU) · Uncommon · Illustrated by G-host Lee

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.