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Live Play Data

Vengeful Ancestor

{2} {R} {R} · Creature — Spirit Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
249
Decks Running
142
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46
0%
T1
4%
T2
2%
T3
15%
T4
15%
T5
46%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16
On curve 22% (7 / 46 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

253 brought · 137 players
Brought to game
253
Ever drawn
61
Reached battlefield
46
Still on board at game end
16

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -9.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=39) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=158).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.9pp to +22.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances
4.7%
Library
25.0%
Battlefield
45.3%
Graveyard
10.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Vengeful Ancestor card

Vengeful Ancestor

{2} {R} {R}
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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.