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Elenda's Hierophant

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

314

Decks Running

163

In Decks

1097

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Elenda's Hierophant

Creature — Vampire Cleric

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Miranda Meeks

Final zone distribution

92 instances

5.4%

Library

26.1%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 30 decks
2 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 21 decks
3 Edgar Markov 16 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 12 decks
5 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 8 decks
6 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 6 decks
7 Hope Estheim 6 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 4 decks
9 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 4 decks
10 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

314 brought · 155 players

Brought to game

314

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=58) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 4% (n=19) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -12.4pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

23%

12%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 28% (14 / 60 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

60 of 100 times cast 60%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.