Live Play Data
Archmage of Runes
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Creature — Giant Wizard
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Foundations (FDN)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
918
Decks Running
446
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
First-cast turn
n=130
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
8%
T4
25%
T5
49%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median
6.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
14
On curve
36%
(32 / 130 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
30%
The "good card" funnel
921 brought · 385 playersBrought to game
921
Ever drawn
254
Reached battlefield
130
Still on board at game end
76
Once cast, 58% 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 29% of the time (n=118) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=558).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=113).
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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.4pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
283 instances2.5%
Library
26.9%
Battlefield
33.2%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Vivi Ornitier
40 decks
-
2
Lord of the Nazgûl
16 decks
-
3
Iroh, Grand Lotus
15 decks
-
4
Prismari, the Inspiration
15 decks
-
5
Quandrix, the Proof
15 decks
-
6
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
14 decks
-
7
Fire Lord Azula
12 decks
-
8
Orvar, the All-Form
12 decks
-
9
Saruman, the White Hand
12 decks
-
10
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
12 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)
·
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 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.