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Live Play Data

Nadir Kraken

{1} {U} {U} · Creature — Kraken · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
352
Decks Running
193
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
54%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=61
0%
T1
2%
T2
16%
T3
15%
T4
13%
T5
49%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 18% (10 / 61 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

352 brought · 179 players
Brought to game
352
Ever drawn
114
Reached battlefield
61
Still on board at game end
29

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=57) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=200).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=47).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.9pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

119 instances
3.4%
Library
24.4%
Battlefield
35.3%
Graveyard
8.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Nadir Kraken card

Nadir Kraken

{1} {U} {U}
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.
2 / 3
Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.