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Live Play Data

Pact of the Serpent

{1} {B} {B} · Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
864
Decks Running
392
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=90
0%
T1
1%
T2
1%
T3
6%
T4
13%
T5
52%
T6-9
27%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 17
On curve 2% (1 / 90 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

866 brought · 373 players
Brought to game
866
Ever drawn
177
Reached battlefield
90
Still on board at game end
6
≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=83) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=594).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=80).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances
3.6%
Library
3.1%
Battlefield
51.5%
Graveyard
8.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Pact of the Serpent card

Pact of the Serpent

{1} {B} {B}
Sorcery
Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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.