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Archfiend of Despair

· Creature — Demon · Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)

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Times Brought

1006

Decks Running

509

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 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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Reality Fracture Commander (FRC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Josh Hass

Final zone distribution

294 instances

9.2%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

19.0%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1006 brought · 458 players

Brought to game

1006

Ever drawn

283

Reached battlefield

171

Still on board at game end

106

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=139) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=520).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=79).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=171

16%

57%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 77% (27 / 171 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.