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Patron of the Vein

· Creature — Vampire Shaman · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

175

Decks Running

In Decks

783

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Patron of the Vein

Creature — Vampire Shaman

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tommy Arnold

Final zone distribution

26 instances

23.1%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

23.1%

Exile

34.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 42 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 19 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 14 decks
4 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 3 decks
5 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 3 decks
6 Astarion, the Decadent 2 decks
7 Evelyn, the Covetous 2 decks
8 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 2 decks
9 Olivia Voldaren 2 decks
10 Timothar, Baron of Bats 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

175 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

175

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

13 of 100 times cast 13%

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.