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Patron of the Vein

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

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Times Brought

541

Decks Running

229

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

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

98 instances

2.0%

Library

40.8%

Battlefield

20.4%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 101 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 44 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 43 decks
4 Olivia, Crimson Bride 10 decks
5 Astarion, the Decadent 3 decks
6 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher 3 decks
7 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 3 decks
8 Olivia Voldaren 3 decks
9 Evelyn, the Covetous 2 decks
10 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

541 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

541

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=45) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=17).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=64

13%

67%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 44% (15 / 64 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.