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Bow of Nylea

· Legendary Enchantment Artifact · Theros (THS)

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Times Brought

198

Decks Running

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

Bow of Nylea

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}

: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Theros (THS) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Final zone distribution

37 instances

40.5%

Battlefield

5.4%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

51.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fynn, the Fangbearer 6 decks
2 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 5 decks
3 The Serpent Society 5 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 3 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 3 decks
6 Arasta of the Endless Web 2 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
8 Gallia of the Endless Dance 2 decks
9 Grolnok, the Omnivore 2 decks
10 Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

198 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

198

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=15) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=130).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +15.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

17 of 100 times cast 17%

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.