Live Play Data

Village Rites

· Instant · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

4411

Decks Running

2066

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=666

15%

19%

46%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 1% (6 / 666 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

4416 brought · 1598 players

Brought to game

4416

Ever drawn

956

Reached battlefield

666

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=609) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2870).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=256).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1118 instances

3.9%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

65.1%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 109 decks
2 Edgar Markov 87 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 54 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 43 decks
5 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 38 decks
6 Marrow-Gnawer 38 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 37 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 33 decks
9 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 32 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 32 decks

Card text

Village Rites

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Common · Illustrated by Bud Cook

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.