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Niv-Mizzet, Parun

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

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Times Brought

1055

Decks Running

439

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

282 instances

4.3%

Library

36.9%

Battlefield

19.5%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 89 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 32 decks
3 Yusri, Fortune's Flame 30 decks
4 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 30 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 21 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 20 decks
7 Stella Lee, Wild Card 20 decks
8 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 14 decks
9 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 13 decks
10 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1055 brought · 450 players

Brought to game

1055

Ever drawn

263

Reached battlefield

149

Still on board at game end

104

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=128) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=612).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=91).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=216

16%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 50% (54 / 216 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.