Live Play Data

Stromkirk Captain

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

311

Decks Running

164

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

21%

23%

16%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 28% (9 / 43 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

311 brought · 156 players

Brought to game

311

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -16.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=38) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=214).

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 -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -16.9pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

3.2%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

33.9%

Graveyard

11.3%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.