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Passionate Archaeologist

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

221

Decks Running

144

In Decks

1107

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

74 instances

4.1%

Library

60.8%

Battlefield

13.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 11 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 9 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 6 decks
4 Laughing Jasper Flint 6 decks
5 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 6 decks
6 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 5 decks
7 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 5 decks
8 Abaddon the Despoiler 4 decks
9 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 4 decks
10 Daredevil, Man Without Fear 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

221 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

221

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=52) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=129).

Observed gap -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

11%

13%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 15% (6 / 54 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

54 of 100 times cast 54%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.