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Hornet Nest

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

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Times Brought

576

Decks Running

256

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

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

Final zone distribution

108 instances

0.9%

Library

39.8%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

577 brought · 229 players

Brought to game

577

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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 30% of the time (n=62) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=345).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=16).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=80

19%

15%

11%

33%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 26% (15 / 80 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.