Live Play Data

Preacher of the Schism

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

333

Decks Running

159

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=41

12%

29%

10%

34%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 41% (12 / 41 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

333 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

333

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=39) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=229).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=18).

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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +27.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

1.5%

Library

32.8%

Battlefield

25.4%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 77 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 13 decks
3 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose 5 decks
4 Evelyn, the Covetous 4 decks
5 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 3 decks
6 Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin 3 decks
7 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer 3 decks
8 Ingris Stingerquill 3 decks
9 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 3 decks
10 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor 3 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 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.