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Beledros Witherbloom

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

457

Decks Running

226

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Beledros Witherbloom

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

Final zone distribution

118 instances

0.8%

Library

43.2%

Battlefield

8.5%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 71 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 28 decks
3 Blech, Loafing Pest 23 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
6 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 14 decks
7 The Ur-Dragon 11 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 6 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 5 decks
10 Beledros Witherbloom 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

458 brought · 217 players

Brought to game

458

Ever drawn

102

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=58) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=267).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=33) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

56%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 70% (15 / 64 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

64 of 100 times cast 64%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.