Live Play Data

Archmage's Charm

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

612

Decks Running

312

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77

13%

18%

53%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 4% (2 / 77 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

612 brought · 274 players

Brought to game

612

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=70) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=366).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=80).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

185 instances

3.8%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

49.2%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Namor the Sub-Mariner 25 decks
2 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 20 decks
3 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 19 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 11 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 11 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
7 The Mindskinner 9 decks
8 Baral, Chief of Compliance 7 decks
9 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 7 decks
10 Riku of Many Paths 6 decks

Card text

Archmage's Charm

Instant

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Alayna Danner

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.