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Archmage of Runes

· Creature — Giant Wizard · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

301

Decks Running

179

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

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 of Runes

Creature — Giant Wizard

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

3 / 6

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Kai Carpenter

Final zone distribution

74 instances

33.8%

Battlefield

17.6%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

39.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 21 decks
2 Prismari, the Inspiration 9 decks
3 Iroh, Grand Lotus 8 decks
4 Quandrix, the Proof 8 decks
5 Lord of the Nazgûl 7 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
8 Aegar, the Freezing Flame 4 decks
9 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 4 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

301 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

301

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=185).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=32).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

13%

23%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 45% (7 / 31 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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.