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Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate

· Creature — Vampire Cleric // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

245

Decks Running

122

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Stensian Sanguinist

Creature — Vampire Cleric

Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this combat, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

2 / 2

Exsanguinate

Sorcery

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Final zone distribution

56 instances

30.4%

Battlefield

41.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

21.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 67 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 14 decks
3 Moseo, Vein's New Dean 3 decks
4 Beledros Witherbloom 2 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 2 decks
6 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 2 decks
7 Edgar Markov 2 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 2 decks
9 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 2 decks
10 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

246 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

246

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=34) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=131).

Observed gap +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

14%

19%

12%

10%

24%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 40%

42 of 100 times cast 42%

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.