Live Play Data
Nahiri's Lithoforming
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Sorcery
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Zendikar Rising (ZNR)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
195
Decks Running
101
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
55%
Format
First-cast turn
n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
9%
T4
13%
T5
52%
T6-9
26%
T10+
Median
8
P25
6
· P75
10
· max
11
Cast same turn as drawn
45%
The "good card" funnel
195 brought · 93 playersBrought to game
195
Ever drawn
42
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
6
≥ +14.4pp
Players who cast this card win 59% of the time (n=22) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=133).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=18).
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 +35.0pp; 95% confidence interval +14.4pp to +55.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
52 instances3.8%
Library
11.5%
Battlefield
48.1%
Graveyard
5.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
41 decks
-
2
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
15 decks
-
3
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
9 decks
-
4
Yuma, Proud Protector
6 decks
-
5
Lord Windgrace
4 decks
-
6
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
4 decks
-
7
Moraug, Fury of Akoum
3 decks
-
8
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher
3 decks
-
9
Omnath, Locus of Creation
2 decks
-
10
Omnath, Locus of Rage
2 decks
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)
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Rare
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.