Live Play Data

Preacher of the Schism

· Creature — Vampire Cleric · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

103

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=26

35%

12%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 42% (9 / 26 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

218

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=25) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=152).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +28.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

31.0%

Battlefield

26.2%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

35.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 48 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 9 decks
3 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose 5 decks
4 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 3 decks
5 Evelyn, the Covetous 3 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 3 decks
7 Astarion, the Decadent 2 decks
8 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 2 decks
9 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 2 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks

Card text

Preacher of the Schism

Creature — Vampire Cleric

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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.