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Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
Creature — Avatar // Sorcery
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Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)
Times Brought
233
Decks Running
128
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Final zone distribution
58 instances44.8%
Battlefield
19.0%
Graveyard
10.3%
Exile
25.9%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 20 decks
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2
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
13 decks
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3
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
11 decks
- 4 Molecule Man 8 decks
- 5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 5 decks
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6
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
4 decks
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7
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle
3 decks
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8
The Cabbage Merchant
3 decks
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9
The Notary Hobbits
3 decks
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10
Animar, Soul of Elements
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
233 brought · 118 playersBrought to game
233
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
26
Once cast, 81% 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.
≥ -6.6pp
Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=26) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=129).
Observed gap +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.6pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=32
0%
T1
6%
T2
13%
T3
22%
T4
19%
T5
38%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
11
On curve
59%
(6 / 32 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
36%
32 of 100 times cast
32%
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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.