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Eye of Nidhogg

· Legendary Enchantment — Aura · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

155

In Decks

872

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Eye of Nidhogg

Legendary Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is a black Dragon with base power and toughness 4/2, has flying and deathtouch, and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) When Eye of Nidhogg is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Erion Makuo

Final zone distribution

89 instances

4.5%

Library

43.8%

Battlefield

14.6%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 100 decks
2 Killian, Decisive Mentor 17 decks
3 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 7 decks
4 Karona, False God 4 decks
5 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 3 decks
6 Estinien Varlineau 2 decks
7 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 2 decks
8 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent 2 decks
9 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 1 decks
10 Aveline de Grandpré 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

312 brought · 149 players

Brought to game

312

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=53) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=190).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=19) — 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 +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +27.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=60

55%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 2% (1 / 60 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

60 of 100 times cast 60%

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.