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Nether Traitor

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

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

134

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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.

1 / 1

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

Final zone distribution

69 instances

39.1%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

21.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 63 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 25 decks
3 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 2 decks
4 Fumulus, the Infestation 2 decks
5 Iname, Death Aspect 2 decks
6 Satoru Umezawa 2 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 2 decks
8 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 2 decks
9 Witherbloom, the Balancer 2 decks
10 Agent of the Iron Throne 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

250 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

250

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=35) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=128).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=15) — 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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

14%

32%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 20% (5 / 44 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

44 of 100 times cast 44%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.