Live Play Data

Archon of Cruelty

· Creature — Archon · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

412

Decks Running

218

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

11%

61%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 72% (7 / 74 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

414 brought · 194 players

Brought to game

414

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +16.2pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=70) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=235).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=39).

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 +27.7pp; 95% confidence interval +16.2pp to +39.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

132 instances

3.0%

Library

34.8%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Archon of Cruelty

Creature — Archon

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Andrew Mar

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.