Live Play Data

Vampire Nighthawk

· Creature — Vampire Shaman · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1004

Decks Running

473

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=161

19%

17%

38%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 25% (31 / 161 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1007 brought · 433 players

Brought to game

1007

Ever drawn

216

Reached battlefield

161

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=139) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=632).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=49).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

245 instances

3.3%

Library

28.2%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

10.2%

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 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.