Live Play Data

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· Legendary Artifact · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

510

Decks Running

254

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

14%

60%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 26% (5 / 57 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

512 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

512

Ever drawn

125

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=53) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=308).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=62).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

2.2%

Library

30.9%

Battlefield

26.6%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Alhammarret's Archive

Legendary Artifact

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Commander 2021 (C21) · Mythic · Illustrated by Richard Wright

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.