Live Play Data
Archfiend of the Dross
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 playersBrought 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 instances1.6%
Library
17.5%
Battlefield
36.5%
Graveyard
15.9%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
36 decks
-
2
Blim, Comedic Genius
18 decks
-
3
Obeka, Brute Chronologist
3 decks
-
4
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
2 decks
-
5
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
2 decks
-
6
Zur, Eternal Schemer
2 decks
-
7
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
1 decks
-
8
Baron Helmut Zemo
1 decks
-
9
Be'lakor, the Dark Master
1 decks
-
10
Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos
1 decks
Card text
Archfiend of the Dross
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.
6 / 6
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.