Live Play Data

Priest of Forgotten Gods

· Creature — Human Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

801

Decks Running

382

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=128

19%

11%

10%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 23% (24 / 128 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

802 brought · 353 players

Brought to game

802

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

128

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=119) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=538).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances

2.1%

Library

24.3%

Battlefield

44.4%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 116 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 24 decks
4 Athreos, God of Passage 8 decks
5 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 7 decks
6 Vren, the Relentless 7 decks
7 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar 6 decks
8 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker 6 decks
9 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 6 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 5 decks

Card text

Priest of Forgotten Gods

Creature — Human Cleric

, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}

and draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Zack Stella

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.