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Live Play Data

Master of Dark Rites

{B} · Creature — Vampire Cleric · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
207
Decks Running
115
Median Cast Turn
3
Drawn → Played
85%
Format

First-cast turn

n=35
29%
T1
11%
T2
14%
T3
11%
T4
9%
T5
20%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 10
On curve 29% (10 / 35 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

207 brought · 114 players
Brought to game
207
Ever drawn
41
Reached battlefield
35
Still on board at game end
11

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=34) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=131).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances
2.3%
Library
25.0%
Battlefield
52.3%
Graveyard
13.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Master of Dark Rites card

Master of Dark Rites

{B}
Creature — Vampire Cleric
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add {B}{B}{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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.