Live Play Data

Archfiend of Ifnir

· Creature — Demon · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

978

Decks Running

479

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=159

12%

69%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 23% (19 / 159 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

982 brought · 432 players

Brought to game

982

Ever drawn

269

Reached battlefield

159

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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=152) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=585).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=99).

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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

295 instances

3.4%

Library

22.4%

Battlefield

37.3%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 71 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 64 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 59 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 37 decks
5 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 35 decks
6 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 24 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 18 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 15 decks
9 Raffine, Scheming Seer 11 decks
10 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 9 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.