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Pact of the Serpent

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

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Times Brought

502

Decks Running

251

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

Pact of the Serpent

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

Final zone distribution

85 instances

9.4%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 66 decks
2 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 41 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 33 decks
4 Rat King, Verminister 9 decks
5 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 8 decks
6 High Perfect Morcant 8 decks
7 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 8 decks
8 The Great Goblin 5 decks
9 Chief of the Wilds 4 decks
10 Karumonix, the Rat King 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

502 brought · 235 players

Brought to game

502

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=27) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=297).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=40).

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 -1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -11.9pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

18%

41%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 12% (3 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.