Live Play Data

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

· Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

130

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

132 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

132

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=15) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=77).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval -11.9pp to +38.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

30 instances

3.3%

Library

30.0%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 49 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 5 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 2 decks
5 Fire Lord Zuko 2 decks
6 Tiamat 2 decks
7 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks
8 Neriv, Heart of the Storm 1 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 1 decks
10 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree 1 decks

Card text

Neriv, Crackling Vanguard

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon

Flying, deathtouch When Neriv enters, create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. Whenever Neriv attacks, exile a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of differently named tokens you control. During any turn you attacked with a commander, you may play those cards.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lucas Graciano

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.