Live Play Data
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
Creature — Avatar // Sorcery
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Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1631
Decks Running
690
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
70%
Format
First-cast turn
n=309
0%
T1
3%
T2
7%
T3
10%
T4
20%
T5
47%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
16
On curve
40%
(62 / 309 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
1634 brought · 595 playersBrought to game
1634
Ever drawn
439
Reached battlefield
309
Still on board at game end
181
Once cast, 59% 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.
≥ +7.0pp
Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=282) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=981).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=105).
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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
473 instances3.4%
Library
38.3%
Battlefield
24.7%
Graveyard
9.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 74 decks
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2
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
34 decks
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3
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
27 decks
- 4 Omnath, Locus of the Void 27 decks
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5
Animar, Soul of Elements
25 decks
- 6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 23 decks
- 7 Molecule Man 16 decks
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8
Kona, Rescue Beastie
14 decks
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9
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
12 decks
- 10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 11 decks
Card text
Wandering Archaic
Creature — Avatar
Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay 
. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.4 / 4
Explore the Vastlands
Sorcery
Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.
Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds
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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.