Live Play Data

Archfiend of Ifnir

· Creature — Demon · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1359

Decks Running

627

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=214

14%

64%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 25% (29 / 214 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1363 brought · 553 players

Brought to game

1363

Ever drawn

368

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=200) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=827).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=136).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +18.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

405 instances

3.2%

Library

19.8%

Battlefield

39.8%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 89 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 82 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 77 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 52 decks
5 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 47 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 30 decks
7 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 29 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 23 decks
9 Raffine, Scheming Seer 16 decks
10 The Reaper, King No More 13 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.