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Nesting Grounds

Land · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

898

Decks Running

483

In Decks

3661

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Nesting Grounds

Land

: Add

: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Final zone distribution

253 instances

3.2%

Library

58.5%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 70 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 56 decks
3 The Wise Mothman 45 decks
4 Tom Bombadil 26 decks
5 Yuna, Grand Summoner 19 decks
6 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 15 decks
7 Indominus Rex, Alpha 10 decks
8 The Reaper, King No More 10 decks
9 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 8 decks
10 Kathril, Aspect Warper 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

902 brought · 400 players

Brought to game

902

Ever drawn

214

Reached battlefield

160

Still on board at game end

148

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=151) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=570).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=47) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +2.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=160

16%

14%

13%

15%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 45%

873 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.