Live Play Data

Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

· Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

13%

43%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 20% (2 / 30 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

159 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=28) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=94).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=16).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

56 instances

7.1%

Library

41.1%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

1.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nissa of Shadowed Boughs

Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a loyalty counter on Nissa. +1: Untap target land you control. You may have it become a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste and menace until end of turn. It's still a land. −5: You may put a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control onto the battlefield from your hand or graveyard with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Loyalty 4

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yongjae Choi

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.