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Preacher of the Schism

{2} {B} · Creature — Vampire Cleric · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Times Brought
179
Decks Running
84
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Preacher of the Schism card

Preacher of the Schism

{2} {B}
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

Final zone distribution

31 instances
41.9%
Battlefield
29.0%
Graveyard
9.7%
Exile
19.4%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 79 players
Brought to game
179
Ever drawn
26
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -21.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=18) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 -8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -21.2pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22
0%
T1
5%
T2
18%
T3
32%
T4
23%
T5
18%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 4 · P75 5 · max 11
On curve 23% (4 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.