Live Play Data

Ark of Hunger

· Artifact · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

230

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

14%

16%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 33% (7 / 43 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

230 brought · 88 players

Brought to game

230

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=41) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=143).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=19).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +26.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

43.7%

Battlefield

28.2%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 30 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 15 decks
3 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 4 decks
4 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 3 decks
5 Celes, Rune Knight 3 decks
6 Osgir, the Reconstructor 3 decks
7 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury 3 decks
8 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death 2 decks
9 Ghen, Arcanum Weaver 2 decks
10 Hofri Ghostforge 2 decks

Card text

Ark of Hunger

Artifact

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, this artifact deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {T}

: Mill a card. You may play that card this turn.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Ksenia Kim

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.