Live Play Data

Passionate Archaeologist

· Legendary Enchantment — Background · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

553

Decks Running

293

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=145

10%

14%

13%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 14% (15 / 145 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

553 brought · 275 players

Brought to game

553

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

139

Still on board at game end

110

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=122) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=324).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=18).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

176 instances

3.4%

Library

62.5%

Battlefield

17.0%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 17 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 16 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 15 decks
4 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 13 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 11 decks
6 Flubs, the Fool 11 decks
7 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 11 decks
8 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician 9 decks
9 Laughing Jasper Flint 9 decks
10 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 8 decks

Card text

Passionate Archaeologist

Legendary Enchantment — Background

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Nino Is

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.