Live Play Data

The Dawning Archaic

· Legendary Creature — Avatar · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

210

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

15%

63%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 89% (3 / 27 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

211 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

211

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=25) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=132).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=19).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +32.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

31.5%

Battlefield

35.2%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

25.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 21 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 7 decks
3 Quandrix, the Proof 3 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
5 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
7 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician 2 decks
8 Nephilim Epochal 2 decks
9 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
10 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 2 decks

Card text

The Dawning Archaic

Legendary Creature — Avatar

This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Reach Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Josu Solano

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.