Live Play Data

Archmage Emeritus

· Creature — Human Wizard · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3045

Decks Running

1525

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=434

14%

16%

47%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 25% (60 / 434 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

3050 brought · 1232 players

Brought to game

3050

Ever drawn

791

Reached battlefield

434

Still on board at game end

222

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=386) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1845).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=325).

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 +12.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.3pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

886 instances

3.2%

Library

25.1%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Archmage Emeritus

Creature — Human Wizard

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.