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Archmage Emeritus

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

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Times Brought

2401

Decks Running

1254

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Archmage Emeritus

Creature — Human Wizard

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

2 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

571 instances

3.5%

Library

37.5%

Battlefield

22.9%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

2402 brought · 1032 players

Brought to game

2402

Ever drawn

526

Reached battlefield

318

Still on board at game end

214

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=249) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1342).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=163).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=318

11%

18%

45%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 24% (35 / 318 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.