Live Play Data

Castle Ardenvale

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2186

Decks Running

1007

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=409

12%

15%

12%

11%

31%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

2187 brought · 865 players

Brought to game

2187

Ever drawn

499

Reached battlefield

409

Still on board at game end

369

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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=367) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1415).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=77).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

556 instances

3.4%

Library

66.4%

Battlefield

12.2%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 93 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 51 decks
3 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 34 decks
4 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 30 decks
5 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 24 decks
6 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 23 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 21 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 17 decks
9 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 16 decks
10 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard 15 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 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.