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Nadier's Nightblade

· Creature — Elf Warrior · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

1045

Decks Running

523

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

Nadier's Nightblade

Creature — Elf Warrior

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

226 instances

1.8%

Library

40.7%

Battlefield

26.5%

Graveyard

3.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 82 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 68 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 40 decks
4 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 20 decks
5 Prosper, Tome-Bound 19 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 18 decks
7 Smaug, Wicked Worm 14 decks
8 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 13 decks
9 Vihaan, Goldwaker 13 decks
10 Shadow the Hedgehog 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1045 brought · 501 players

Brought to game

1045

Ever drawn

213

Reached battlefield

144

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=112) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=581).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=49).

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 +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=144

10%

15%

10%

17%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 26% (21 / 144 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.