Card Preview

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

· Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

498

Decks Running

268

In Decks

1801

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

1 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

Final zone distribution

118 instances

1.7%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

49.2%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 82 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 47 decks
3 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 7 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 7 decks
5 Ayara, First of Locthwain 6 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 6 decks
7 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 5 decks
8 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 5 decks
9 Teysa Karlov 5 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

501 brought · 249 players

Brought to game

501

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=81) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=323).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=16) — 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 -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

28%

10%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 35% (25 / 89 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

89 of 100 times cast 89%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.