Live Play Data

Nezahal, Primal Tide

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur · Commander Legends (CMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1502

Decks Running

627

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=247

10%

15%

60%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 68% (42 / 247 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1503 brought · 582 players

Brought to game

1503

Ever drawn

437

Reached battlefield

239

Still on board at game end

150

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=218) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=886).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=186).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

476 instances

4.0%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

23.5%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nezahal, Primal Tide

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

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Commander Legends (CMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Sam Burley

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.