Commander

Captain N'ghathrod

Global commander stats

All Dimir commanders Featured in Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate

1614 Wins

5018 Losses

Overview

Summary

Captain N'ghathrod is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 6,686 recorded Playgroup games, winning 24% of them (1614–5018) at an Elo of 1,487, ranking #3588 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 5 damage dealt and 0.47 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 11 Sep 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Captain N'ghathrod's win rate?

Captain N'ghathrod has a 24% win rate across 6686 recorded Playgroup games (1614 wins, 5018 losses).

How long do winning games with Captain N'ghathrod take?

Wins with Captain N'ghathrod take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: 7 days.

How many decks use Captain N'ghathrod?

2,267 decks list Captain N'ghathrod as their commander on Playgroup, of which 1,283 have played at least one recorded game.

Captain N'ghathrod Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

3588

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1487

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 5

Average commander damage per game 4

Average poison counters given per game 3

Average kills per game 0.47

Average turn length < a minute

No. decks for this commander 2267

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 1283

No. games played with this commander 6686

Total hours played 7 days

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1678	Hobbes	42	20	48 %
2	1675	CodeEnd	108	39	36 %
3	1637	David VF	25	14	58 %
4	1593	DungeonDaddy	37	18	49 %
5	1574	Magnus_the_Grixis	7	4	57 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Captain N'ghathrod wins, 47.91% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

47.91%

Mill

30.92%

Non Combat Damage

10.54%

Alternative

4.88%

Commander Damage

2.87%

Combo

2.53%

Poison

0.35%

Avg win turn 9.0 based on 1642 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Captain N'ghathrod

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Captain N'ghathrod decks that leave them out.

+9.5 pp

Top card: Altar of the Brood

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Altar of the Brood 363 games	+9.5 pp	363
2	Shipwreck Marsh 383 games	+9.4 pp	383
3	Watery Grave 377 games	+7.4 pp	377
4	Drowned Catacomb 408 games	+6.3 pp	408
5	Ruin Crab 522 games	+5.5 pp	522
6	Toxrill, the Corrosive 386 games	+4.4 pp	386
7	Aboleth Spawn 702 games	+4.3 pp	702
8	Deadly Rollick 80 games	+3.7 pp	80
9	Court of Cunning 347 games	+3.3 pp	347
10	Counterspell 474 games	+3.0 pp	474

Show 5 more (ranks 11-15)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Breach the Multiverse 237 games	+2.9 pp	237
12	Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs 86 games	+2.8 pp	86
13	Wrexial, the Risen Deep 71 games	+2.1 pp	71
14	Mindcrank 979 games	+2.0 pp	979
15	Bruvac the Grandiloquent 528 games	+1.5 pp	528

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Captain N'ghathrod wins 31.42% of games from position 1 and 11.97% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

31.42% n=1935

Seat 2

25.35% n=1949

Seat 3

20.52% n=1513

Seat 4

16.78% n=915

Seat 5

11.97% n=142

Seat 6

17.65% n=17

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Captain N'ghathrod wins 24.8% after 0 mulligans and 25.0% after 5 mulligans.

0 mulligans

24.8% n=3050

1 mulligan

25.2% n=897

2 mulligans

21.19% n=295

3 mulligans

21.69% n=83

4 mulligans

0.0% n=12

5 mulligans

25.0% n=4

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Captain N'ghathrod 3.53/5 on average, across 4589 self-reports.

3.53 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Captain N'ghathrod wins, opponents flag the game as salty 71.3% of the time across 1644 tracked wins.

71.3 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Captain N'ghathrod. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.