Live Play Data

Passionate Archaeologist

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

372

Decks Running

219

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

87%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

11%

13%

39%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 15% (11 / 104 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

372 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

372

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=86) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=216).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

124 instances

4.0%

Library

65.3%

Battlefield

14.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 13 decks
2 Prosper, Tome-Bound 13 decks
3 Fire Lord Zuko 11 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 9 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 9 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 9 decks
7 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 7 decks
8 Laughing Jasper Flint 7 decks
9 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 7 decks
10 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 6 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.