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Niv-Mizzet, Parun card art
Live Play Data

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

{U} {U} {U} {R} {R} {R} · Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
5%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
872
Decks Running
376
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
49%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=150
0%
T1
0%
T2
2%
T3
5%
T4
15%
T5
64%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 18
On curve 43% (31 / 150 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

873 brought · 385 players
Brought to game
873
Ever drawn
250
Reached battlefield
123
Still on board at game end
70

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=120) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=527).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=115).

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 +20.8pp; 95% confidence interval +12.3pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

272 instances
4.4%
Library
25.7%
Battlefield
26.5%
Graveyard
8.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Niv-Mizzet, Parun card

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

{U} {U} {U} {R} {R} {R}
Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard
This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.
5 / 5
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.