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Archway of Innovation

Land · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
Times Brought
676
Decks Running
367
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Archway of Innovation card

Archway of Innovation

Land
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: 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

Final zone distribution

167 instances
1.2%
Library
71.3%
Battlefield
10.2%
Graveyard
1.8%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

676 brought · 323 players
Brought to game
676
Ever drawn
154
Reached battlefield
125
Still on board at game end
119

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=98) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=382).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=21).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=125
18%
T1
19%
T2
15%
T3
7%
T4
10%
T5
26%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16
Cast same turn as drawn 55%

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.