Live Play Data

Vow of Lightning

· Enchantment — Aura · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

162

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

23%

35%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 3% (1 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

162 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

162

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=28) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=108).

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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

39 instances

5.1%

Library

35.9%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 20 decks
2 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 18 decks
3 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 10 decks
4 Karona, False God 6 decks
5 Khârn the Betrayer 5 decks
6 Blim, Comedic Genius 3 decks
7 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 2 decks
8 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 1 decks
9 Dong Zhou, the Tyrant 1 decks
10 Elsha, Threefold Master 1 decks

Card text

Vow of Lightning

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.