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Priest of Forgotten Gods

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

547

Decks Running

276

In Decks

1844

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

129 instances

2.3%

Library

25.6%

Battlefield

41.9%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 90 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 17 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 15 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 7 decks
5 Athreos, God of Passage 5 decks
6 Ayara, First of Locthwain 5 decks
7 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 5 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 4 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

548 brought · 252 players

Brought to game

548

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=84) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=377).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=25) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

16%

13%

11%

40%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 17% (14 / 89 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

89 of 100 times cast 89%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.