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Live Play Data

Vedalken Archmage

{2} {U} {U} · Creature — Vedalken Wizard · Jumpstart (JMP)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
564
Decks Running
295
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
61%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83
0%
T1
2%
T2
10%
T3
10%
T4
16%
T5
53%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 22% (8 / 83 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

564 brought · 276 players
Brought to game
564
Ever drawn
135
Reached battlefield
83
Still on board at game end
47

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +15.1pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=73) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=355).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=46).

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 +26.6pp; 95% confidence interval +15.1pp to +38.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances
1.4%
Library
31.8%
Battlefield
28.4%
Graveyard
5.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Vedalken Archmage card

Vedalken Archmage

{2} {U} {U}
Creature — Vedalken Wizard
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, draw a card.
0 / 2
Jumpstart (JMP) · Rare · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.