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Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

{2} {W} {W} {B} {B} · Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · Reality Fracture Commander (FRC)
Times Brought
229
Decks Running
133
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text
Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel card

Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

{2} {W} {W} {B} {B}
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

Final zone distribution

84 instances
6.0%
Library
41.7%
Battlefield
19.0%
Graveyard
4.8%
Exile

The "good card" funnel

229 brought · 131 players
Brought to game
229
Ever drawn
83
Reached battlefield
54
Still on board at game end
35

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=45) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=118).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=22).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +14.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89
0%
T1
1%
T2
0%
T3
12%
T4
25%
T5
47%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24
On curve 55% (15 / 89 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

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.