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Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

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

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Times Brought

352

Decks Running

183

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

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

Final zone distribution

97 instances

37.1%

Battlefield

34.0%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

21.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 61 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 36 decks
3 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 6 decks
4 Marneus Calgar 5 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 4 decks
6 Teysa Karlov 4 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 3 decks
8 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 3 decks
9 Super Shredder 3 decks
10 Ayara, First of Locthwain 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

353 brought · 180 players

Brought to game

353

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=57) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=166).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=15) — 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 -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=75

23%

12%

17%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 20

On curve 28% (17 / 75 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

75 of 100 times cast 75%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.