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Nadir Kraken

· Creature — Kraken · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

207

Decks Running

119

In Decks

797

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Nadir Kraken

Creature — Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

Final zone distribution

70 instances

1.4%

Library

22.9%

Battlefield

38.6%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marneus Calgar 27 decks
2 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 9 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 7 decks
4 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 6 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 6 decks
6 The Watcher in the Water 6 decks
7 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 5 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 3 decks
9 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 2 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

207 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

207

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=35) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=125).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 46% (n=27) — 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 +14.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +31.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 18% (6 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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

Frequently Asked

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.