Live Play Data

Castle Ardenvale

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1649

Decks Running

797

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=302

15%

14%

11%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

1650 brought · 690 players

Brought to game

1650

Ever drawn

368

Reached battlefield

302

Still on board at game end

272

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=267) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1073).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=53).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

412 instances

3.6%

Library

66.0%

Battlefield

12.9%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 75 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 43 decks
3 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 26 decks
4 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 23 decks
5 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 23 decks
6 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 20 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 17 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 14 decks
9 Ellivere of the Wild Court 13 decks
10 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 12 decks

Card text

Castle Ardenvale

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}

: Add

: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.