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Live Play Data

Nest of Scarabs

{2} {B} · Enchantment · Amonkhet (AKH)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
220
Decks Running
111
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
54%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33
0%
T1
6%
T2
15%
T3
27%
T4
12%
T5
24%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 21% (5 / 33 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

220 brought · 101 players
Brought to game
220
Ever drawn
61
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
24

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ -14.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=29) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=129).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=25).

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 +1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -14.9pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

65 instances
3.1%
Library
36.9%
Battlefield
21.5%
Graveyard
3.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Nest of Scarabs card

Nest of Scarabs

{2} {B}
Enchantment
Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.
Amonkhet (AKH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

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.