Live Play Data

Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

595

Decks Running

324

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=104

10%

20%

11%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 32% (21 / 104 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

595 brought · 296 players

Brought to game

595

Ever drawn

148

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=96) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=371).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=35).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

168 instances

2.4%

Library

47.6%

Battlefield

20.8%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 64 decks
2 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 27 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 21 decks
4 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 6 decks
5 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 6 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 6 decks
7 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 5 decks
8 Nahiri, Forged in Fury 5 decks
9 Balan, Wandering Knight 4 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 4 decks

Card text

Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {3}

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Titus Lunter

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.