Live Play Data
Archmage of Runes
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Creature — Giant Wizard
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Foundations (FDN)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
571
Decks Running
305
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
53%
Format
First-cast turn
n=82
0%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
10%
T4
28%
T5
48%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
14
On curve
39%
(23 / 82 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
28%
The "good card" funnel
574 brought · 268 playersBrought to game
574
Ever drawn
155
Reached battlefield
82
Still on board at game end
46
Once cast, 56% 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.
≥ -4.2pp
Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=79) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=365).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=68).
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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
174 instances1.1%
Library
26.4%
Battlefield
36.8%
Graveyard
7.5%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Vivi Ornitier
27 decks
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2
Lord of the Nazgûl
11 decks
-
3
Fire Lord Azula
10 decks
-
4
Iroh, Grand Lotus
10 decks
-
5
Prismari, the Inspiration
10 decks
-
6
Quandrix, the Proof
10 decks
-
7
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
10 decks
-
8
Saruman, the White Hand
9 decks
-
9
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
7 decks
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10
Orvar, the All-Form
7 decks
Card text
Archmage of Runes
Creature — Giant Wizard
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost 
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.3 / 6
Foundations (FDN)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Kai Carpenter
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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.