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Part of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
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Creature — Zombie Cleric
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
Live Play Data
Pontiff of Blight
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Creature — Zombie Cleric
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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
153
Decks Running
82
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
First-cast turn
n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
4%
T4
9%
T5
65%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median
8
P25
7
· P75
9
· max
16
On curve
22%
(2 / 23 cast on T6)
Cast same turn as drawn
23%
The "good card" funnel
153 brought · 82 playersBrought to game
153
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
10
Once cast, 43% 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.
≥ +7.2pp
Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=20) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=90).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (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 +29.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.2pp to +51.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
48 instances2.1%
Library
20.8%
Battlefield
33.3%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
15 decks
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2
Nalia de'Arnise
8 decks
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3
Prosper, Tome-Bound
6 decks
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4
Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
4 decks
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5
The Kingpin of Crime
4 decks
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6
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
4 decks
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7
Athreos, God of Passage
3 decks
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8
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
3 decks
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9
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
2 decks
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10
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
2 decks
Card text
Pontiff of Blight
Creature — Zombie Cleric
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 
. 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.)
. 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.)2 / 7
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
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Rare
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.