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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Live Play Data
Nev, the Practical Dean
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Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
519
Decks Running
234
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
61%
Format
First-cast turn
n=77
1%
T1
3%
T2
14%
T3
12%
T4
9%
T5
47%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
16
On curve
18%
(11 / 77 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
35%
The "good card" funnel
519 brought · 212 playersBrought to game
519
Ever drawn
126
Reached battlefield
77
Still on board at game end
40
Once cast, 52% 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.
≥ +5.8pp
Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=71) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=339).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (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 +17.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
133 instances5.3%
Library
30.1%
Battlefield
26.3%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
181 decks
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2
Zaxara, the Exemplary
13 decks
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3
Primo, the Unbounded
11 decks
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4
Magus Lucea Kane
4 decks
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5
Jackal, Genius Geneticist
3 decks
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6
Gargos, Vicious Watcher
2 decks
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7
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
2 decks
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8
Sovereign Okinec Ahau
2 decks
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9
Berta, Wise Extrapolator
1 decks
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10
Captain America, First Avenger
1 decks
Card text
Nev, the Practical Dean
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Creatures you control with counters on them have trample.
Whenever you cast your first spell with 
in its mana cost each turn, put X +1/+1 counters on Nev.
in its mana cost each turn, put X +1/+1 counters on Nev.2 / 2
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Lie Setiawan
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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.