Live Play Data

Ordeal of Nylea

· Enchantment — Aura · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

324

Decks Running

160

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

17%

15%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 7% (3 / 46 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

324 brought · 156 players

Brought to game

324

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 17% 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.

≥ -13.9pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=40) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=207).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=28).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -13.9pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

9.2%

Battlefield

59.8%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

24.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 21 decks
2 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 17 decks
3 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch 12 decks
4 Stangg, Echo Warrior 7 decks
5 Tifa Lockhart 7 decks
6 Kosei, Penitent Warlord 5 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 4 decks
8 Thrun, Breaker of Silence 4 decks
9 Wilson, Refined Grizzly 4 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks

Card text

Ordeal of Nylea

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice this Aura. When you sacrifice this Aura, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Palumbo

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.