Live Play Data

Archfiend of Ifnir

· Creature — Demon · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1769

Decks Running

759

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=277

15%

65%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 20% (41 / 277 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1773 brought · 670 players

Brought to game

1773

Ever drawn

470

Reached battlefield

277

Still on board at game end

110

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ +8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=260) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=1092).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=170).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +8.4pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

516 instances

3.1%

Library

21.3%

Battlefield

39.5%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 108 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 96 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 88 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 58 decks
5 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 56 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 39 decks
7 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 39 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 31 decks
9 Raffine, Scheming Seer 17 decks
10 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 15 decks

Card text

Archfiend of Ifnir

Creature — Demon

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2}

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.