Live Play Data

Nissa, Resurgent Animist

· Legendary Creature — Elf Scout · March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

687

Decks Running

326

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=121

11%

21%

13%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 35% (25 / 121 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

687 brought · 288 players

Brought to game

687

Ever drawn

179

Reached battlefield

114

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=107) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=407).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=61).

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 +17.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +26.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

212 instances

4.2%

Library

31.6%

Battlefield

32.1%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Legendary Creature — Elf Scout

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color. Then if this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an Elf or Elemental card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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March of the Machine: The Aftermath (MAT) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tuan Duong Chu

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.