Live Play Data

From the Catacombs

· Sorcery · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

222

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

222

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=18) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (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 +25.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +50.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

1.8%

Library

45.6%

Graveyard

14.0%

Exile

38.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

From the Catacombs

Sorcery

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape— {3}

, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Ben Wootten

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.