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Live Play Data

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

{4} {U} {B} {B} {R} · Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas · Archenemy: Nicol Bolas (E01)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
490
Decks Running
149
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
58%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=85
1%
T1
0%
T2
2%
T3
1%
T4
6%
T5
72%
T6-9
18%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 64% (14 / 85 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 135 players
Brought to game
490
Ever drawn
146
Reached battlefield
85
Still on board at game end
49

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.

≥ +13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=69) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=279).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=52).

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 +25.1pp; 95% confidence interval +13.5pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

161 instances
6.2%
Library
30.4%
Battlefield
29.8%
Graveyard
5.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker card

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

{4} {U} {B} {B} {R}
Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas
+3: Destroy target noncreature permanent. −2: Gain control of target creature. −9: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards seven cards, then sacrifices seven permanents of their choice.
Loyalty 5
Archenemy: Nicol Bolas (E01) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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.