Live Play Data

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

· Enchantment // Sorcery — Adventure · Wilds of Eldraine (WOE)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

350

Decks Running

213

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=47

13%

19%

45%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 74% (7 / 47 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

350 brought · 196 players

Brought to game

350

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=41) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=228).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=26).

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 +23.6pp; 95% confidence interval +9.0pp to +38.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances

1.1%

Library

26.1%

Battlefield

27.2%

Graveyard

15.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 16 decks
2 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 6 decks
3 Tinybones, the Pickpocket 5 decks
4 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 4 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 4 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 4 decks
7 Indominus Rex, Alpha 4 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
9 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 4 decks
10 Captain N'ghathrod 3 decks

Card text

Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Sorcery — Adventure

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Wilds of Eldraine (WOE) · Mythic · Illustrated by Piotr Dura

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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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.