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Nesting Dragon

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

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

111

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

66 instances

45.5%

Battlefield

24.2%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

22.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 29 decks
2 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 24 decks
3 Lord Windgrace 11 decks
4 Eshki, Temur's Roar 6 decks
5 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 4 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 4 decks
7 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 3 decks
8 Yuma, Proud Protector 3 decks
9 Jolene, the Plunder Queen 2 decks
10 Molten Man, Inferno Incarnate 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

252 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

252

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=39) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=138).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +21.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

23%

18%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 45% (8 / 44 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.