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The Dawning Archaic

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

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Times Brought

148

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

34 instances

2.9%

Library

38.2%

Battlefield

20.6%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

152 brought · 75 players

Brought to game

152

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.