Live Play Data

New Blood

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

324

Decks Running

160

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=61

16%

44%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 20% (10 / 61 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

324 brought · 147 players

Brought to game

324

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=53) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=209).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=16).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

1.2%

Library

6.0%

Battlefield

59.5%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 89 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 35 decks
3 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 6 decks
4 Astarion, the Decadent 4 decks
5 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 3 decks
6 Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin 3 decks
7 Drana and Linvala 2 decks
8 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 2 decks
9 Evelyn, the Covetous 2 decks
10 Olivia Voldaren 2 decks

Card text

New Blood

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped Vampire you control. Gain control of target creature. Change the text of that creature by replacing all instances of one creature type with Vampire.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Howard Lyon

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.