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

544

Decks Running

262

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

14%

60%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 46% (13 / 57 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

544 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

544

Ever drawn

104

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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=52) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=382).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=41).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

111 instances

4.5%

Library

23.4%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

14.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 111 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 46 decks
3 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 44 decks
4 Olivia, Crimson Bride 6 decks
5 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 5 decks
6 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 5 decks
7 Evelyn, the Covetous 5 decks
8 Olivia Voldaren 4 decks
9 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 3 decks
10 Timothar, Baron of Bats 3 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 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.