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Poison-Tip Archer

· Creature — Elf Archer · Kaldheim Commander (KHC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

343

Decks Running

181

In Decks

1453

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Poison-Tip Archer

Creature — Elf Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Kaldheim Commander (KHC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

Final zone distribution

82 instances

30.5%

Battlefield

31.7%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

30.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 31 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 27 decks
3 The Serpent Society 19 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 12 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 8 decks
7 High Perfect Morcant 7 decks
8 Slimefoot, the Stowaway 5 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 4 decks
10 Joel, Resolute Survivor 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

343 brought · 178 players

Brought to game

343

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=45) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=218).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +26.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=48

15%

19%

54%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 17% (7 / 48 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

48 of 100 times cast 48%

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.