Archfiend of the Dross card art
Live Play Data

Archfiend of the Dross

{2} {B} {B} · Creature — Phyrexian Demon · Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
176
Decks Running
78
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
63%
Format

First-cast turn

n=32
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
13%
T4
19%
T5
53%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15
On curve 13% (4 / 32 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

176 brought · 74 players
Brought to game
176
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
11

Once cast, 34% 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 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=100).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=17).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +32.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances
1.6%
Library
17.5%
Battlefield
36.5%
Graveyard
15.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Archfiend of the Dross card

Archfiend of the Dross

{2} {B} {B}
Creature — Phyrexian Demon
Flying This creature enters with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from this creature. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.
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Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Rare · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.