Live Play Data

Archfiend of Depravity

· Creature — Demon · Archenemy: Nicol Bolas (E01)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1777

Decks Running

742

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=271

16%

56%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 29% (43 / 271 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1778 brought · 663 players

Brought to game

1778

Ever drawn

416

Reached battlefield

271

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=240) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1125).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=124).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

476 instances

6.1%

Library

21.2%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 97 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 96 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 72 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 50 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 33 decks
6 Ardyn, the Usurper 24 decks
7 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 22 decks
8 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 19 decks
9 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 19 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 12 decks

Card text

Archfiend of Depravity

Creature — Demon

Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

5 / 4

Archenemy: Nicol Bolas (E01) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

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.