Live Play Data

Shard of the Nightbringer

· Creature — C'tan · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

682

Decks Running

307

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

11%

58%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 65% (12 / 108 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

682 brought · 289 players

Brought to game

682

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

108

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=104) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=449).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=58).

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 +21.0pp; 95% confidence interval +11.4pp to +30.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

199 instances

4.5%

Library

30.2%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

12.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shard of the Nightbringer

Creature — C'tan

Flying Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Pierre Loyvet

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.