Live Play Data

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Legendary Land · Theros (THS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

9544

Decks Running

4107

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1868

11%

14%

15%

14%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 21

Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

9545 brought · 2426 players

Brought to game

9545

Ever drawn

2345

Reached battlefield

1868

Still on board at game end

1715

Once cast, 92% 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.

≥ +6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=1683) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=6105).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=419).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval +6.7pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2607 instances

3.1%

Library

65.8%

Battlefield

13.0%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 188 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 102 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 90 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 70 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 65 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 57 decks
7 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 53 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 53 decks
9 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 51 decks
10 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 46 decks

Card text

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Legendary Land

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Theros (THS) · Rare · Illustrated by Jung Park

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.