Live Play Data

Vona, Butcher of Magan

· Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=36

14%

67%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 22% (5 / 36 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=206).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=25).

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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.7pp to +40.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

61 instances

4.9%

Library

26.2%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 34 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 26 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 12 decks
4 Edgar Markov 12 decks
5 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 7 decks
6 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 4 decks
7 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 3 decks
8 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 3 decks
9 Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord 3 decks
10 Mister Negative 3 decks

Card text

Vona, Butcher of Magan

Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight

Vigilance, lifelink {T}

, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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.