Archive Trap card art
Live Play Data

Archive Trap

{3} {U} {U} · Instant — Trap · Zendikar (ZEN)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
111
Decks Running
47
Median Cast Turn
Drawn → Played
64%
Format

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

111 brought · 46 players
Brought to game
111
Ever drawn
28
Reached battlefield
18
Still on board at game end
0
≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=17) , vs 12% when it never left the library (n=64).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +33.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

33 instances
3.0%
Library
63.6%
Graveyard
12.1%
Exile
21.2%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Archive Trap card

Archive Trap

{3} {U} {U}
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.
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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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.