Live Play Data

Nested Shambler

· Creature — Zombie · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

370

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

23%

12%

11%

26%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 23% (13 / 57 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

370 brought · 162 players

Brought to game

370

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=49) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=249).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=16).

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 -1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

4.8%

Library

18.1%

Battlefield

53.0%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 40 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 31 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 20 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
5 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 8 decks
6 The Muckslinger Gang 7 decks
7 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 5 decks
8 Minthara, Merciless Soul 5 decks
9 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 5 decks
10 Camellia, the Seedmiser 4 decks

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

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.