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Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger

Legendary Creature — Cat Warrior // Legendary Planeswalker — Ajani · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

114

Decks Running

In Decks

443

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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.

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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) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

Final zone distribution

30 instances

3.3%

Library

36.7%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 28 decks
2 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger 6 decks
3 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 5 decks
4 Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second 3 decks
5 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil 2 decks
6 Winota, Joiner of Forces 2 decks
7 Zurgo Stormrender 2 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
9 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 1 decks
10 Baylen, the Haymaker 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

114 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

114

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -20.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=19) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=76).

Observed gap +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -20.9pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

20%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 9

On curve 25% (3 / 20 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.