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Nested Shambler

· Creature — Zombie · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

243

Decks Running

117

In Decks

710

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Nested Shambler

Creature — Zombie

When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.

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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Common · Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory

Final zone distribution

55 instances

7.3%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 27 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 21 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 13 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
5 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 5 decks
6 Minthara, Merciless Soul 5 decks
7 Camellia, the Seedmiser 4 decks
8 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 4 decks
9 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 3 decks
10 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

243 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

243

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -20.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=34) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=161).

Observed gap -7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -20.7pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37

19%

16%

14%

24%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 19% (7 / 37 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

37 of 100 times cast 37%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.