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Meticulous Archive

Land — Plains Island · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Times Brought
1037
Decks Running
551
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Meticulous Archive card

Meticulous Archive

Land — Plains Island
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Rare · Illustrated by Sam Burley

Final zone distribution

312 instances
1.6%
Library
74.0%
Battlefield
10.6%
Graveyard
1.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1037 brought · 485 players
Brought to game
1037
Ever drawn
291
Reached battlefield
235
Still on board at game end
231

Once cast, 98% 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 28% of the time (n=187) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=541).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=38).

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 -0.2pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=235
29%
T1
10%
T2
12%
T3
9%
T4
8%
T5
27%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 23
Cast same turn as drawn 65%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.