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Live Play Data

Nogi, Draco-Zealot

{1} {R} {R} · Legendary Creature — Kobold Shaman · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
589
Decks Running
298
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
72%
Format

First-cast turn

n=113
1%
T1
10%
T2
27%
T3
13%
T4
13%
T5
31%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13
On curve 38% (31 / 113 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

589 brought · 279 players
Brought to game
589
Ever drawn
123
Reached battlefield
88
Still on board at game end
41

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=81) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=395).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=31).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

134 instances
2.2%
Library
30.6%
Battlefield
37.3%
Graveyard
10.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Nogi, Draco-Zealot card

Nogi, Draco-Zealot

{1} {R} {R}
Legendary Creature — Kobold Shaman
Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever Nogi attacks, if you control three or more Dragons, until end of turn, Nogi becomes a Dragon with base power and toughness 5/5 and gains flying.
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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.