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Archfiend of Depravity

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

474

Decks Running

235

In Decks

1465

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

131 instances

6.9%

Library

17.6%

Battlefield

36.6%

Graveyard

17.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 31 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 27 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 23 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 18 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 11 decks
6 Ardyn, the Usurper 8 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 7 decks
8 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 7 decks
9 Mogis, God of Slaughter 6 decks
10 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

475 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

475

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 29% 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.

≥ -10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=71) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=299).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

12%

17%

54%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 31% (13 / 78 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

78 of 100 times cast 78%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.