Live Play Data

Stromkirk Captain

· Creature — Vampire Soldier · Crimson Vow Commander (VOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

352

Decks Running

182

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

22%

16%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 28% (11 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

352 brought · 173 players

Brought to game

352

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -17.1pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=45) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=242).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 5% (n=16).

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 -5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -17.1pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

2.8%

Library

34.7%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Stromkirk Captain

Creature — Vampire Soldier

First strike Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

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Crimson Vow Commander (VOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jana Schirmer & Johannes Voss

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.