Live Play Data

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

Legendary Creature — Vampire Warlock // Legendary Creature — Human Druid · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

162

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

16%

20%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 8 P25 4 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 8% (2 / 25 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

162 brought · 86 players

Brought to game

162

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 32% 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.

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=22) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=92).

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 +28.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +49.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

4.4%

Library

17.8%

Battlefield

57.8%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 21 decks
2 Dina, Soul Steeper 18 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 12 decks
4 Indominus Rex, Alpha 6 decks
5 Beledros Witherbloom 4 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 4 decks
7 Savra, Queen of the Golgari 4 decks
8 Dina, Essence Brewer 3 decks
9 Gorma, the Gullet 2 decks
10 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 2 decks

Card text

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Legendary Creature — Vampire Warlock

Menace, lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}

. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

1 / 1

Lisette, Dean of the Root

Legendary Creature — Human Druid

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

4 / 4

Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Rare · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.