Live Play Data

Pontiff of Blight

· Creature — Zombie Cleric · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

227

Decks Running

121

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

71%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 19% (2 / 31 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

227 brought · 117 players

Brought to game

227

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=26) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=131).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=22).

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 +24.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +43.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

1.5%

Library

21.2%

Battlefield

30.3%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 22 decks
2 Nalia de'Arnise 14 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 8 decks
4 Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath 6 decks
5 The Kingpin of Crime 5 decks
6 Athreos, God of Passage 4 decks
7 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 4 decks
8 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose 4 decks
9 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 3 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 3 decks

Card text

Pontiff of Blight

Creature — Zombie Cleric

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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.