Live Play Data

Vault of the Archangel

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

685

Decks Running

385

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

12%

17%

15%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

685 brought · 352 players

Brought to game

685

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

124

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=122) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=412).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=32).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances

2.6%

Library

65.6%

Battlefield

15.9%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 24 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 20 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 14 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 12 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 12 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 12 decks
7 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 11 decks
8 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 11 decks
9 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 11 decks
10 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 9 decks

Card text

Vault of the Archangel

Land

: Add

: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Avon

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.