Live Play Data

Archfiend of Ifnir

· Creature — Demon · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

598

Decks Running

302

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=97

16%

66%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 25% (16 / 97 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

602 brought · 274 players

Brought to game

602

Ever drawn

163

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ +3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=91) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=360).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=58).

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 +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.9pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

183 instances

3.3%

Library

22.4%

Battlefield

36.6%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 50 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 37 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 34 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 23 decks
5 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 19 decks
6 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 17 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 13 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 11 decks
9 Raffine, Scheming Seer 7 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 6 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.