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Nested Shambler

· Creature — Zombie · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

178

Decks Running

In Decks

520

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

44 instances

9.1%

Library

20.5%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 19 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 9 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
5 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 4 decks
6 Camellia, the Seedmiser 4 decks
7 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 3 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 3 decks
9 Minthara, Merciless Soul 3 decks
10 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

178 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

178

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 31% 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.

≥ -26.8pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=28) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=118).

Observed gap -13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -26.8pp to +0.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

17%

21%

10%

28%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 17% (5 / 29 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.