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Vein Ripper

· Creature — Vampire Assassin · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

170

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Vein Ripper

Creature — Vampire Assassin

Flying Ward—Sacrifice a creature. Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

6 / 5

Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

Final zone distribution

61 instances

1.6%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 40 decks
2 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 23 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks
4 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 8 decks
5 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 7 decks
6 Maha, Its Feathers Night 5 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 4 decks
8 Dina, Essence Brewer 3 decks
9 Shadow the Hedgehog 3 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=26) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=220).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=18).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

12%

15%

58%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 64% (9 / 33 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.