Live Play Data

Vampire Nighthawk

· Creature — Vampire Shaman · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

696

Decks Running

353

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=118

17%

14%

11%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 23% (20 / 118 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

699 brought · 328 players

Brought to game

699

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=103) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=33).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

176 instances

4.5%

Library

29.5%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Vampire Nighthawk

Creature — Vampire Shaman

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Chan

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.