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Nicanzil, Current Conductor

· Legendary Creature — Merfolk Scout · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

167

Decks Running

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

Nicanzil, Current Conductor

Legendary Creature — Merfolk Scout

Whenever a creature you control explores a land card, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature you control explores a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on Nicanzil.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Fariba Khamseh

Final zone distribution

38 instances

55.3%

Battlefield

23.7%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

15.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

167

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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 41% of the time (n=29) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

22%

13%

19%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 9% (1 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 58%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.