Live Play Data

Archfiend of Despair

· Creature — Demon · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

425

Decks Running

200

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

18%

55%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 68% (7 / 62 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

425 brought · 185 players

Brought to game

425

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=57) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=291).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=27).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +23.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

3.9%

Library

34.3%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Archfiend of Despair

Creature — Demon

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Josh Hass

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.