Live Play Data

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

· Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

444

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=91

12%

68%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 20% (11 / 91 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

444 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

444

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +13.2pp

Players who cast this card win 53% of the time (n=80) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=249).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=36).

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 +24.3pp; 95% confidence interval +13.2pp to +35.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

4.3%

Library

37.4%

Battlefield

23.7%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jace, Multiverse Architect 43 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 32 decks
3 Tam, the Possibility 29 decks
4 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 26 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
6 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 5 decks
7 Arzakon 4 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
9 Thanos, the Mad Titan 4 decks
10 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 3 decks

Card text

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Loyalty 4

Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.