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Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

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

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Times Brought

214

Decks Running

139

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

56 instances

3.6%

Library

60.7%

Battlefield

12.5%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 50 decks
2 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 6 decks
3 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 6 decks
4 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks
5 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 3 decks
6 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 3 decks
7 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 3 decks
8 Balan, Wandering Knight 2 decks
9 Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant 2 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

214 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

214

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=35) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=119).

Observed gap -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

18%

13%

16%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 34% (5 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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.