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Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

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

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Times Brought

705

Decks Running

383

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

150 instances

1.3%

Library

57.3%

Battlefield

14.0%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

705 brought · 363 players

Brought to game

705

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=80) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=392).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=26).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=98

14%

15%

12%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 34% (14 / 98 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.