Live Play Data

Maskwood Nexus

· Artifact · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1068

Decks Running

521

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Maskwood Nexus appears in 3% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, with a median first-cast turn of 6 and 77% battlefield stickiness once it resolves.

Maskwood Nexus is a narrow but deliberate include: 3% of tracked Commander decks run it, concentrated almost entirely in creature-type-matters strategies. It shows up in 521 of 17176 decks that have played a tracked game on Playgroup Live.

The card lands later than its 4-mana cost suggests. Median first cast is turn 6, with the interquartile range stretching from turn 4 to turn 8. That spread reflects how situational the card is: players hold it until a tribal payoff is on board or imminent. Of drawn copies, 60% reach the battlefield before the game ends. Once it resolves, 77% of copies stay on the battlefield through end of game, a sign that opponents often have more pressing threats to answer.

The commander distribution is spread across 441 distinct players, with no single contributor accounting for more than a sliver of the dataset. That breadth gives the numbers reasonable signal quality for a niche card. Rin and Seri, Hazel of the Rootbloom, Atla Palani, and Voja lead the top-commander list, confirming that Maskwood Nexus lives squarely in tribal and token-adjacent strategies.

At a glance

3% of tracked Commander decks include Maskwood Nexus
T6 median first-cast turn, later than its 4-mana cost implies
60% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
77% battlefield stickiness once the Nexus resolves
441 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
32% win rate in games where Maskwood Nexus was cast (normalized to 4-player baseline)

First-cast turn

n=155

15%

12%

52%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 26% (24 / 155 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

1068 brought · 441 players

Brought to game

1068

Ever drawn

258

Reached battlefield

155

Still on board at game end

119

60%

Of 1068 copies brought to games, 258 were drawn, 155 of those were cast, and 77% of resolved copies stayed on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=142) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=673).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=92) — 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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

288 instances

3.5%

Library

41.3%

Battlefield

24.0%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Most tracked Maskwood Nexus copies finish on the battlefield or in hand, with a meaningful graveyard share reflecting removal pressure; only a handful spend their game untouched in the library.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The top-commander list skews heavily toward tribal payoff commanders, with Rin and Seri, Hazel of the Rootbloom, and Atla Palani leading, confirming Maskwood Nexus is almost exclusively a creature-type-matters include.

Card text

Maskwood Nexus

Artifact

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}

: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

Frequently Asked

How often is Maskwood Nexus drawn in a Commander game?

Across 1026 tracked games where Maskwood Nexus was in the deck, it was drawn 24% of the time. That is roughly in line with what you would expect for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 258 instances that reached a player's hand, 60% were cast before the game ended.

What turn does Maskwood Nexus typically hit the battlefield?

Median first-cast turn is 6, with the 25th percentile at turn 4 and the 75th percentile at turn 8. The distribution clusters around turns 4 through 8, which tells you players rarely slam it on curve. The hand-to-cast data shows a median delay of 2 turns from when it is drawn to when it is cast, and 20% of drawn copies are cast on the same turn they are drawn. Most of the delay is strategic: players wait for the right tribal setup.

Does casting Maskwood Nexus actually improve your win rate?

In 142 participations where Maskwood Nexus was cast, the normalized win rate is 32%. In 673 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate is 24%. The delta is +8.9 percentage points. The lower bound of the confidence interval is just above zero, so this is an early positive signal, not a settled conclusion. Treat it as directional.

Which commanders most often run Maskwood Nexus?

Rin and Seri, Inseparable leads the list by deck count, followed by Hazel of the Rootbloom, Atla Palani, Nest Tender, and Voja, Jaws of the Conclave. The pattern is consistent: Maskwood Nexus goes into decks that care about creature types, whether for tribal lords, token generators, or commanders that reward uniform creature-type identity across the board.

Is Maskwood Nexus legal in Commander?

Yes. Maskwood Nexus is legal in Commander, as well as Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Duel Commander, Brawl, Oathbreaker, and Gladiator. It is not legal in Standard, Pauper, Pauper Commander, or Premodern.

How concentrated is the Maskwood Nexus data on Playgroup Live?

441 distinct players have brought Maskwood Nexus to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 24% of all instances. That spread is a genuine strength of the dataset for a niche rare. The data is not dominated by any one player's results, which makes the directional signals more credible.