Live Play Data

Nissa, Steward of Elements

· Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa · Commander 2020 (C20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

191

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

21%

12%

39%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

191 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

191

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -17.1pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=26) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=120).

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

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 -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -17.1pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

6.8%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

28.8%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nissa, Steward of Elements

Legendary Planeswalker — Nissa

+2: Scry 2. 0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield. −6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.

Loyalty X

Commander 2020 (C20) · Mythic · Illustrated by Howard Lyon

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.