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Live Play Data

Archpriest of Shadows

{3} {B} {B} · Creature — Human Warlock · March of the Machine (MOM)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
380
Decks Running
186
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52
0%
T1
0%
T2
8%
T3
8%
T4
15%
T5
54%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11
On curve 31% (8 / 52 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

380 brought · 174 players
Brought to game
380
Ever drawn
102
Reached battlefield
52
Still on board at game end
29

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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=48) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=239).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=47).

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 +14.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances
1.8%
Library
25.4%
Battlefield
26.3%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Archpriest of Shadows card

Archpriest of Shadows

{3} {B} {B}
Creature — Human Warlock
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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March of the Machine (MOM) · Rare · Illustrated by Fariba Khamseh

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.