Live Play Data

Archive Trap

· Instant — Trap · Zendikar (ZEN)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

208

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

17%

57%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 33% (5 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=29) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=135).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=16).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +33.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

3.4%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

61.0%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Archive Trap

Instant — Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0}

rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Zendikar (ZEN) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Felix

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 subset of that corpus.