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Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

{3} {B} {B} · Legendary Creature — Demon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
Times Brought
465
Decks Running
218
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format

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

Card text
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen card

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

{3} {B} {B}
Legendary Creature — Demon
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.
3 / 3
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jason Felix

Final zone distribution

126 instances
38.9%
Battlefield
41.3%
Graveyard
1.6%
Exile
18.3%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

465 brought · 208 players
Brought to game
465
Ever drawn
94
Reached battlefield
70
Still on board at game end
49

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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=59) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=232).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=18).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=83
1%
T1
0%
T2
7%
T3
11%
T4
23%
T5
51%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 42% (19 / 83 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.