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Village Rites

· Instant · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

995

Decks Running

520

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

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

Final zone distribution

214 instances

0.5%

Library

0.9%

Battlefield

63.6%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 30 decks
2 Marrow-Gnawer 21 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 20 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 17 decks
5 Edgar Markov 15 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
7 Rat King, Verminister 10 decks
8 Ghoulcaller Gisa 8 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 8 decks
10 The Great Goblin 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

995 brought · 440 players

Brought to game

995

Ever drawn

193

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=118) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=643).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=50) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +3.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=127

18%

12%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 0% (0 / 127 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

1355 of 300 tracked games 99%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.