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Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

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

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Times Brought

1018

Decks Running

508

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

240 instances

0.4%

Library

47.1%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 147 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 90 decks
3 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 13 decks
4 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 13 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 11 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 10 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 8 decks
8 Silverquill, the Disputant 8 decks
9 Teysa Karlov 8 decks
10 Ayara, First of Locthwain 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1019 brought · 467 players

Brought to game

1019

Ever drawn

236

Reached battlefield

196

Still on board at game end

113

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=144) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=492).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=32).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=196

11%

23%

12%

10%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 20

On curve 34% (45 / 196 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.