Live Play Data

Archway of Innovation

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1454

Decks Running

634

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=273

16%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

1454 brought · 535 players

Brought to game

1454

Ever drawn

373

Reached battlefield

273

Still on board at game end

247

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=250) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=919).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=94).

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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

415 instances

2.4%

Library

59.5%

Battlefield

15.4%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 41 decks
2 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 35 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 23 decks
4 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 20 decks
5 Edward Kenway 20 decks
6 Shorikai, Genesis Engine 17 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 14 decks
8 Golbez, Crystal Collector 14 decks
9 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 14 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 13 decks

Card text

Archway of Innovation

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}

: Add

: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.