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Live Play Data

Nested Shambler

{B} · Creature — Zombie · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
634
Decks Running
280
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=100
22%
T1
6%
T2
9%
T3
12%
T4
15%
T5
24%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18
On curve 22% (22 / 100 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

634 brought · 259 players
Brought to game
634
Ever drawn
133
Reached battlefield
100
Still on board at game end
26

Once cast, 26% 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.

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=82) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=421).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=31).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances
4.1%
Library
17.6%
Battlefield
50.0%
Graveyard
9.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Nested Shambler card

Nested Shambler

{B}
Creature — Zombie
When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.
1 / 1
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Common · Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory

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.