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New Blood

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

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Times Brought

363

Decks Running

160

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

77 instances

5.2%

Library

6.5%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 92 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 40 decks
3 Olivia Voldaren 5 decks
4 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 4 decks
5 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 4 decks
6 Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin 2 decks
7 Anje Falkenrath 1 decks
8 Ardyn, the Usurper 1 decks
9 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 1 decks
10 Don Andres, the Renegade 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

363 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

363

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=35) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=213).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=22).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=43

16%

58%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 7% (2 / 43 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.