Live Play Data

Passionate Archaeologist

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

800

Decks Running

377

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

86%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=198

11%

13%

15%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 16% (22 / 198 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

800 brought · 357 players

Brought to game

800

Ever drawn

223

Reached battlefield

192

Still on board at game end

146

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=174) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=475).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=28).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

252 instances

3.6%

Library

57.9%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 20 decks
2 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 19 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 19 decks
4 Prosper, Tome-Bound 19 decks
5 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 14 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 13 decks
7 Flubs, the Fool 13 decks
8 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician 12 decks
9 Laughing Jasper Flint 12 decks
10 Codie, Ravenous Codex 11 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.