Live Play Data

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1877

Decks Running

836

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=347

32%

10%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 32% (110 / 347 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1880 brought · 748 players

Brought to game

1880

Ever drawn

409

Reached battlefield

333

Still on board at game end

136

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=326) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1314).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=70).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

445 instances

1.3%

Library

30.6%

Battlefield

44.5%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 176 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 164 decks
3 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 22 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 19 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 17 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 17 decks
7 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 17 decks
8 Ayara, First of Locthwain 16 decks
9 Super Shredder 12 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 11 decks

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.)

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

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.