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Vault of the Archangel

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

614

Decks Running

348

In Decks

3175

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

167 instances

3.0%

Library

65.9%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 22 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 18 decks
3 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 12 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 12 decks
5 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 10 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 10 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 9 decks
8 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 9 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 9 decks
10 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

614 brought · 319 players

Brought to game

614

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

122

Still on board at game end

110

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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=112) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=373).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=28) — 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 -3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +5.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=122

10%

13%

16%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

601 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.