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Part of Modern Horizons 3
Live Play Data
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior // Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
176
Decks Running
88
Median Cast Turn
4.0
Drawn → Played
82%
Format
First-cast turn
n=40
8%
T1
25%
T2
8%
T3
13%
T4
20%
T5
28%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median
4.0
P25
2
· P75
6
· max
9
On curve
33%
(10 / 40 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
47%
The "good card" funnel
176 brought · 83 playersBrought to game
176
Ever drawn
39
Reached battlefield
32
Still on board at game end
16
Once cast, 50% 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.
≥ -4.9pp
Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=31) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=113).
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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +29.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
42 instances2.4%
Library
38.1%
Battlefield
35.7%
Graveyard
7.1%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Rin and Seri, Inseparable
44 decks
-
2
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
10 decks
-
3
Winota, Joiner of Forces
5 decks
-
4
Zurgo Stormrender
5 decks
-
5
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil
4 decks
-
6
Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second
3 decks
-
7
Jetmir, Nexus of Revels
2 decks
-
8
Najeela, the Blade-Blossom
2 decks
-
9
The Jolly Balloon Man
2 decks
-
10
Aragorn, the Uniter
1 decks
Card text
Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior
When Ajani enters, create a 2/1 white Cat Warrior creature token.
Whenever one or more other Cats you control die, you may exile Ajani, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
1 / 2
Ajani, Nacatl Avenger
Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani
+2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Cat you control.
0: Create a 2/1 white Cat Warrior creature token. When you do, if you control a red permanent other than Ajani, he deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to any target.
−4: Each opponent chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.
Loyalty 3
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Chris Rallis
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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.