Live Play Data

Deep Forest Hermit

· Creature — Elf Druid · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

546

Decks Running

245

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=79

66%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 23% (7 / 79 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

546 brought · 228 players

Brought to game

546

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -16.2pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=73) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=369).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=25).

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 -6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -16.2pp to +2.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

117 instances

1.7%

Library

31.6%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 69 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 68 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 64 decks
4 Camellia, the Seedmiser 11 decks
5 Esix, Fractal Bloom 6 decks
6 The Odd Acorn Gang 4 decks
7 Thromok the Insatiable 4 decks
8 Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord 3 decks
9 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
10 Ezuri, Claw of Progress 2 decks

Card text

Deep Forest Hermit

Creature — Elf Druid

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Squirrels you control get +1/+1.

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Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Seaman

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.