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Academy Ruins

Legendary Land · Double Masters (2XM)

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Times Brought

791

Decks Running

400

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

Academy Ruins

Legendary Land

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: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Final zone distribution

183 instances

2.7%

Library

62.3%

Battlefield

9.3%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 27 decks
2 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 15 decks
3 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 14 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 14 decks
5 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 12 decks
6 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 12 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 11 decks
8 Dr. Eggman 10 decks
9 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 9 decks
10 Brago, King Eternal 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

791 brought · 353 players

Brought to game

791

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

114

Once cast, 97% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=85) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=477).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38).

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 +6.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=117

14%

11%

15%

14%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.