Live Play Data

Vengeful Ancestor

· Creature — Spirit Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1079

Decks Running

462

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=182

13%

18%

49%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 20% (24 / 182 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1083 brought · 430 players

Brought to game

1083

Ever drawn

255

Reached battlefield

182

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=169) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=711).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=68).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

273 instances

1.8%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

39.9%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 64 decks
2 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 36 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 34 decks
4 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 26 decks
5 Kardur, Doomscourge 24 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 23 decks
7 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 23 decks
8 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil 22 decks
9 Eshki, Temur's Roar 21 decks
10 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 19 decks

Card text

Vengeful Ancestor

Creature — Spirit Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a goaded creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to its controller.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Zug

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.