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Pact of the Serpent

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

192

Decks Running

106

In Decks

846

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

44 instances

6.8%

Library

6.8%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 23 decks
2 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 20 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 10 decks
4 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 5 decks
5 High Perfect Morcant 3 decks
6 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 3 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks
8 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 2 decks
9 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 2 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

192

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -24.3pp

Players who cast this card win 10% of the time (n=18) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -9.8pp; 95% confidence interval -24.3pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.