Live Play Data
Alhammarret's Archive
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Legendary Artifact
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Commander 2021 (C21)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1386
Decks Running
619
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
50%
Format
First-cast turn
n=182
2%
T1
1%
T2
4%
T3
12%
T4
11%
T5
57%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
5
· P75
9
· max
14
On curve
29%
(20 / 182 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
25%
The "good card" funnel
1388 brought · 513 playersBrought to game
1388
Ever drawn
363
Reached battlefield
182
Still on board at game end
140
Once cast, 77% 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 40% of the time (n=168) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=840).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=168).
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 +16.0pp; 95% confidence interval +8.6pp to +23.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
402 instances2.7%
Library
34.8%
Battlefield
20.1%
Graveyard
5.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
52 decks
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2
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
51 decks
-
3
Hope Estheim
40 decks
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4
Whtz, the Bibliophile
30 decks
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5
Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
24 decks
-
6
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
22 decks
-
7
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
17 decks
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8
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
16 decks
-
9
Queza, Augur of Agonies
12 decks
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10
Zedruu the Greathearted
12 decks
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)
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Mythic
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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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.