Live Play Data

Captain N'ghathrod

· Legendary Creature — Horror Pirate · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=269

14%

25%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 70% (72 / 269 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

249 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

249

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=25) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=25).

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 +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +36.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

21.9%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

34.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Captain N'ghathrod

Legendary Creature — Horror Pirate

Horrors you control have menace. Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards. At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.