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Sanguine Bond

· Enchantment · Commander 2021 (C21)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

849

Decks Running

421

In Decks

3246

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sanguine Bond

Enchantment

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

Final zone distribution

224 instances

2.2%

Library

37.9%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

852 brought · 388 players

Brought to game

852

Ever drawn

199

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=104) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=544).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=70) — 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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=118

12%

10%

53%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 25% (12 / 118 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

816 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.