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Nurturing Bristleback LCI 0203 · common

Nurturing Bristleback · {5}{G}{G} · Creature — Dinosaur · When this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token. Forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) · Power / toughness: 5/5

Nurturing Bristleback · {5}{G}{G} · Creature — Dinosaur · When this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token. Forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.) · Power / toughness: 5/5

Price
from $0.251 printing
Win rate
54.6% GIH 52,877 instances · Premier Draft
Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 28,880 wins in 52,877 card-in-hand instances.

48,975 distinct games · 17,565 distinct drafts · games recorded Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023.

17Lands file dated Dec 27, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

54.6%when drawn (GIH)

−0.7 pp vs 55.3% average · 52,877 instances

Premier Draft · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · average from 823,614 games

#138 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.5 on average (239,452 packs).

25 of 41 green cards · 8 of 19 green common cards.

Taken at pick8.031,250 picks
Makes the deck66.8%31,250 picks with known usage
When played54.8%111,619.7 matchesBenched 55.5%
47,907.3 matches
When drawn54.6%52,877 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 52.9% · 22,033 instances
● Drawn later 55.9% · 30,844 instances

In hand 54.6% · 52,877 instances
Unseen in deck 54.4% · 77,146 instances
+0.2 percentage points when drawn

Compared with green cards

Win rate when drawn54.6%52,877 instances25 of 41
Opening hand52.9%22,033 instances27 of 41
Drawn later55.9%30,844 instances21 of 41
In the deck54.6%131,225 instances24 of 41
Without seeing it54.4%77,146 instances18 of 41
Improvement when drawn+0.2 pp52,877 instances / 77,146 instances30 of 41
When benched55.5%47,907.3 matches6 of 41
Makes the deck66.8%31,250 picks with known usage19 of 41
Pick (last seen)5.5239,452 packs24 of 41
Taken at8.031,250 picks25 of 41

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Fungal Festering BG56.6%10,146 instancesDinosaurs of the Sun Empire RG55.2%16,667 instancesMalamet Tactics GW53.5%4,025 instancesRiver Herald Expedition UG52.4%3,812 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (54.6% · 52,877 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Defossilize+10.6 pp11,482 games with both in the deck · 2,534 both drawnHuatli, Poet of Unity+7.3 pp5,063 games with both in the deck · 921 both drawnBringer of the Last Gift+7.7 pp3,404 games with both in the deck · 678 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 45% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LCI 0203 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set$0.25
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.27

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 565 packs (0.18%) · 6.2% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 11 packs (9.36%) · 97.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 188 packs (0.53%) · 14.8% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 23 packs (4.31%) · 73.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil67%Common
Draft BoosterCommon or traditional foil33%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Set BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Set BoosterWildcards100% per positionWildcards
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
John Tedrick, LCI 203 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
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Sources
Wizards · Collecting The Lost Caverns of Ixalan · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗