Live Play Data

Ardyn, the Usurper

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

585

Decks Running

231

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

12%

68%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 27

On curve 71% (18 / 143 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

585 brought · 225 players

Brought to game

585

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=102) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=336).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=60).

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 +17.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +26.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

202 instances

4.0%

Library

32.2%

Battlefield

24.3%

Graveyard

14.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 35 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 20 decks
3 Baron Helmut Zemo 12 decks
4 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 12 decks
5 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 9 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 7 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
10 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 5 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.