Live Play Data

Nesting Dragon

· Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

529

Decks Running

237

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=110

12%

18%

57%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 31% (20 / 110 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

533 brought · 224 players

Brought to game

533

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ +8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=105) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=327).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=35).

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 +18.6pp; 95% confidence interval +8.9pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

159 instances

3.8%

Library

42.8%

Battlefield

23.9%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nesting Dragon

Creature — Dragon

Flying Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 0/2 red Dragon Egg creature token with defender and "When this token dies, create a 2/2 red Dragon creature token with flying and ' {R}

: This token gets +1/+0 until end of turn.'"

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jehan Choo

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.