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Live Play Data

Vow of Lightning

{2} {R} · Enchantment — Aura · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
215
Decks Running
125
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
82%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
19%
T4
24%
T5
41%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15
On curve 3% (1 / 37 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

215 brought · 121 players
Brought to game
215
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
37
Still on board at game end
17

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=34) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=148).

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 -1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -15.9pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances
6.4%
Library
36.2%
Battlefield
42.6%
Graveyard
4.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Vow of Lightning card

Vow of Lightning

{2} {R}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has first strike, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

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.