Live Play Data

Matoya, Archon Elder

· Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

272

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

31%

10%

24%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 37% (16 / 51 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 122 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=45) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=175).

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 +16.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +29.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

40.3%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

12.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Denzilore Fatehold 31 decks
2 Golbez, Crystal Collector 24 decks
3 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 12 decks
4 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
5 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 6 decks
6 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 5 decks
7 Elminster 5 decks
8 Elrond, Master of Healing 4 decks
9 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent 4 decks
10 Arwen Undómiel 3 decks

Card text

Matoya, Archon Elder

Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Luisa J. Preissler

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.