Live Play Data

Jace's Archivist

· Creature — Vedalken Wizard · Commander 2015 (C15)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

923

Decks Running

394

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=147

12%

20%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 21% (17 / 147 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

924 brought · 368 players

Brought to game

924

Ever drawn

290

Reached battlefield

147

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=133) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=127).

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 +13.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.1pp to +22.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

314 instances

7.6%

Library

21.3%

Battlefield

36.6%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Jace's Archivist

Creature — Vedalken Wizard

: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

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Commander 2015 (C15) · Rare · Illustrated by James Ryman

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.