Live Play Data

Nightscape Familiar

· Creature — Zombie · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1393

Decks Running

687

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=264

20%

14%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 29% (52 / 264 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1393 brought · 609 players

Brought to game

1393

Ever drawn

376

Reached battlefield

264

Still on board at game end

128

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=245) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=832).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=98).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

407 instances

4.7%

Library

31.4%

Battlefield

36.6%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 107 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 92 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 61 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 54 decks
5 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 49 decks
6 Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor 43 decks
7 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 22 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 21 decks
9 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 20 decks
10 Saruman, the White Hand 18 decks

Card text

Nightscape Familiar

Creature — Zombie

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. {1}

: Regenerate this creature.

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Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Common · Illustrated by Jeff Easley

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.