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Elenda's Hierophant

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

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Times Brought

793

Decks Running

386

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

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

162 instances

1.2%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 142 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 36 decks
3 Edgar Markov 29 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 21 decks
5 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 11 decks
6 Hope Estheim 10 decks
7 Astarion, the Decadent 9 decks
8 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 9 decks
9 Karlov of the Ghost Council 9 decks
10 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

793 brought · 353 players

Brought to game

793

Ever drawn

153

Reached battlefield

114

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=91) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=457).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=31).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=114

12%

18%

12%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 32% (20 / 114 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.