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Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate

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

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Times Brought

578

Decks Running

306

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.)

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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

130 instances

0.8%

Library

36.2%

Battlefield

37.7%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 148 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 29 decks
3 Codie, Ravenous Codex 19 decks
4 Edgar Markov 10 decks
5 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 6 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 6 decks
7 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 5 decks
8 Moseo, Vein's New Dean 5 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 4 decks
10 Gorma, the Gullet 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

579 brought · 287 players

Brought to game

579

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=76) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=309).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=22).

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 -2.0pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=95

17%

12%

28%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.