Live Play Data

Nahiri's Lithoforming

· Sorcery · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

130

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

54%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 32

Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

249 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

249

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +14.4pp

Players who cast this card win 57% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=167).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=26).

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 +33.2pp; 95% confidence interval +14.4pp to +52.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances

3.0%

Library

9.1%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nahiri's Lithoforming

Sorcery

Sacrifice X lands. For each land sacrificed this way, draw a card. You may play X additional lands this turn. Lands you control enter tapped this turn.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.