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Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Creature — Avatar // Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)
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Times Brought
467
Decks Running
248
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands card Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands back face

Wandering Archaic

{5}
Creature — Avatar
Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
4 / 4

Explore the Vastlands

{3}
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) · Rare · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

Final zone distribution

107 instances
43.9%
Battlefield
22.4%
Graveyard
9.3%
Exile
24.3%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

467 brought · 225 players
Brought to game
467
Ever drawn
95
Reached battlefield
62
Still on board at game end
47

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=49) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=24).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=62
2%
T1
5%
T2
16%
T3
23%
T4
18%
T5
32%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 17
On curve 63% (11 / 62 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.