Live Play Data

Nether Traitor

· Creature — Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

595

Decks Running

302

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=111

17%

13%

12%

36%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 19% (19 / 111 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

596 brought · 279 players

Brought to game

596

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=101) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=356).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=44).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

171 instances

2.9%

Library

26.9%

Battlefield

43.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 115 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 49 decks
3 Satoru Umezawa 11 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 9 decks
5 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 7 decks
6 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor 6 decks
7 Ayara, First of Locthwain 5 decks
8 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 4 decks
9 Gonti, Night Minister 4 decks
10 Goro-Goro and Satoru 4 decks

Card text

Nether Traitor

Creature — Spirit

Haste Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Vance Kovacs

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.