Live Play Data

Patron of the Vein

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

308

Decks Running

157

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

68%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 39% (8 / 28 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

308 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

308

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -20.7pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=25) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=220).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=21).

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 -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -20.7pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

5.5%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

23.6%

Graveyard

12.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 68 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 32 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 24 decks
4 Olivia, Crimson Bride 4 decks
5 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 3 decks
6 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 3 decks
7 Olivia Voldaren 3 decks
8 Timothar, Baron of Bats 3 decks
9 Astarion, the Decadent 2 decks
10 Evelyn, the Covetous 2 decks

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

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.