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Meren of Clan Nel Toth

· Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

431

Decks Running

198

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.

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Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Mark Winters

Final zone distribution

158 instances

1.3%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 80 decks
2 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 14 decks
3 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 9 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 8 decks
5 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 8 decks
6 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 6 decks
7 The Mycotyrant 5 decks
8 The Serpent Society 4 decks
9 Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie 4 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

431 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

431

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=63) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=200).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=37).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=145

15%

22%

23%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 46% (32 / 145 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.