Live Play Data

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1642

Decks Running

674

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=301

14%

63%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 41% (58 / 301 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1643 brought · 670 players

Brought to game

1643

Ever drawn

473

Reached battlefield

238

Still on board at game end

140

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +12.0pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=217) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=982).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=212).

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 +18.4pp; 95% confidence interval +12.0pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

517 instances

3.7%

Library

27.1%

Battlefield

24.8%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 104 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 60 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 55 decks
4 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 45 decks
5 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 41 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 30 decks
7 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 27 decks
8 Stella Lee, Wild Card 25 decks
9 Gandalf, Party Guest 22 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 18 decks

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

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.