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Archfiend of Depravity

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

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Times Brought

818

Decks Running

403

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

174 instances

0.6%

Library

38.5%

Battlefield

28.2%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 69 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 59 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 38 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 20 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 16 decks
6 Ardyn, the Usurper 14 decks
7 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 8 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 7 decks
9 Kaervek the Merciless 6 decks
10 Mogis, God of Slaughter 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

818 brought · 364 players

Brought to game

818

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=65) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=452).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=34).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

16%

55%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 28% (16 / 102 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.