Live Play Data

Vengeful Ancestor

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

847

Decks Running

377

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=144

13%

18%

46%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 23% (19 / 144 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

851 brought · 351 players

Brought to game

851

Ever drawn

199

Reached battlefield

144

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=133) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=561).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=51).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

214 instances

1.9%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 50 decks
2 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 27 decks
3 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 27 decks
4 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 25 decks
5 Kardur, Doomscourge 21 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 19 decks
7 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 18 decks
8 Eshki, Temur's Roar 17 decks
9 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil 17 decks
10 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 15 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.