Live Play Data

Archfiend of Depravity

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

853

Decks Running

400

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=141

18%

54%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 33% (26 / 141 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

854 brought · 364 players

Brought to game

854

Ever drawn

191

Reached battlefield

141

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 33% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=124) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=528).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=41).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

228 instances

7.9%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

14.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 56 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 55 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 37 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 24 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 16 decks
6 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 16 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 13 decks
8 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 12 decks
9 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 8 decks
10 Mogis, God of Slaughter 7 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.