Live Play Data

Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

· Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

661

Decks Running

339

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=288

11%

18%

52%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 56% (61 / 288 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

662 brought · 320 players

Brought to game

662

Ever drawn

226

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ +9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=135) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=363).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=63).

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 +18.2pp; 95% confidence interval +9.4pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

244 instances

6.1%

Library

36.5%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon

Flying Whenever you gain life, you may pay that much life. If you do, draw that many cards. {T}

: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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Reality Fracture Commander (FRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.