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Ardyn, the Usurper

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

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Times Brought

309

Decks Running

138

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

78 instances

5.1%

Library

30.8%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 21 decks
2 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 9 decks
3 Baron Helmut Zemo 7 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 decks
5 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 5 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 4 decks
8 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic 4 decks
9 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 3 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

309 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

309

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=21) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=25).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.8pp to +25.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

11%

64%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 77% (8 / 47 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.