Live Play Data

Ardyn, the Usurper

· Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

758

Decks Running

293

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=182

12%

67%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 27

On curve 70% (25 / 182 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

758 brought · 278 players

Brought to game

758

Ever drawn

217

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=130) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=446).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=74).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.7pp to +26.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

253 instances

4.0%

Library

32.0%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

15.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 43 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 26 decks
3 Baron Helmut Zemo 17 decks
4 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 12 decks
5 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 9 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
7 Gyruda, Doom of Depths 7 decks
8 Jace, Multiverse Architect 7 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
10 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 7 decks

Card text

Ardyn, the Usurper

Legendary Creature — Elder Human Noble

Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste. Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Russell Dongjun Lu

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.