Live Play Data

Merchant of Venom

· Creature — Cat Warlock · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

152

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

21%

44%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 12% (2 / 34 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

152 brought · 87 players

Brought to game

152

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 26% 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.

≥ -9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=33) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=94).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.1pp to +25.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

20.5%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

25.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 78 decks
2 Dina, Soul Steeper 2 decks
3 Gorma, the Gullet 2 decks
4 Tom, Bert, and William 2 decks
5 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 1 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 1 decks
7 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 1 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 1 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 1 decks

Card text

Merchant of Venom

Creature — Cat Warlock

Menace When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Diana Franco

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.