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Passionate Archaeologist

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

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Times Brought

458

Decks Running

228

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

115 instances

0.9%

Library

64.3%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 21 decks
2 Abaddon the Despoiler 14 decks
3 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 14 decks
4 Fire Lord Zuko 12 decks
5 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 10 decks
6 Prosper, Tome-Bound 8 decks
7 The Infamous Cruelclaw 8 decks
8 The Tenth Doctor 8 decks
9 Averna, the Chaos Bloom 7 decks
10 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

458 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

458

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=70) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=248).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +3.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=85

15%

11%

13%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 19% (3 / 85 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

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.