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Niv-Mizzet, Parun

· Legendary Creature — Dragon Wizard · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

538

Decks Running

234

In Decks

2194

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

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

Final zone distribution

172 instances

5.2%

Library

29.1%

Battlefield

21.5%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 31 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 28 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 17 decks
4 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 15 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 13 decks
6 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 11 decks
7 Stella Lee, Wild Card 11 decks
8 Gandalf, Party Guest 10 decks
9 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 7 decks
10 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

539 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

539

Ever drawn

150

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=75) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=328).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=68) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +22.0pp; 95% confidence interval +11.3pp to +32.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

14%

65%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 36% (13 / 78 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

78 of 100 times cast 78%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.