Live Play Data

Hornet Nest

· Creature — Insect · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

380

Decks Running

194

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

16%

12%

17%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 21% (9 / 58 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

383 brought · 185 players

Brought to game

383

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=56) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=18).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

94 instances

3.2%

Library

19.1%

Battlefield

53.2%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 40 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 15 decks
3 Fynn, the Fangbearer 15 decks
4 Emmara, Soul of the Accord 12 decks
5 Grist, the Hunger Tide 12 decks
6 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 11 decks
7 The Serpent Society 10 decks
8 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 8 decks
9 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 5 decks
10 Radagast of Rhosgobel 5 decks

Card text

Hornet Nest

Creature — Insect

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, create that many 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.