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Archfiend of Ifnir

· Creature — Demon · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

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Times Brought

1067

Decks Running

446

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 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

Final zone distribution

266 instances

2.6%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 85 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 60 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 58 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 51 decks
5 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 21 decks
6 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 18 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 17 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 10 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 9 decks
10 The Reaper, King No More 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

1067 brought · 409 players

Brought to game

1067

Ever drawn

253

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=103) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=540).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=91).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=135

19%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 32% (26 / 135 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.