Live Play Data

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Legendary Land · Theros (THS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2249

Decks Running

1177

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=441

12%

13%

17%

13%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

2250 brought · 791 players

Brought to game

2250

Ever drawn

542

Reached battlefield

441

Still on board at game end

398

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=395) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1419).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

618 instances

3.1%

Library

64.4%

Battlefield

14.6%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 51 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 25 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 25 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 18 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 18 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 18 decks
7 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 17 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 16 decks
9 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 16 decks
10 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 14 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.