Live Play Data

Master of Dark Rites

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

437

Decks Running

208

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

91%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

36%

14%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 36% (31 / 87 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 72%

The "good card" funnel

437 brought · 196 players

Brought to game

437

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=83) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=290).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

3.9%

Library

29.4%

Battlefield

52.0%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 127 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 31 decks
3 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 6 decks
4 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 4 decks
5 Orah, Skyclave Hierophant 4 decks
6 Rakdos, the Muscle 4 decks
7 Timothar, Baron of Bats 4 decks
8 Athreos, God of Passage 3 decks
9 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 3 decks
10 Taborax, Hope's Demise 3 decks

Card text

Master of Dark Rites

Creature — Vampire Cleric

, Sacrifice another creature: Add {B}

. Spend this mana only to cast Vampire, Cleric, and/or Demon spells.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.