Live Play Data

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

· Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

104

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=284

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

104 brought · 52 players

Brought to game

104

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=16) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=66).

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 -2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

31 instances

6.5%

Library

25.8%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 9 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 4 decks
4 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 3 decks
5 Kess, Dissident Mage 3 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 2 decks
8 Lord of Tresserhorn 2 decks
9 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist 2 decks
10 Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor 2 decks

Card text

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Winters

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.