Live Play Data

Deep Forest Hermit

· Creature — Elf Druid · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

382

Decks Running

186

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

65%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 20% (4 / 55 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

382 brought · 171 players

Brought to game

382

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -17.7pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=51) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=255).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=18).

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 -6.4pp; 95% confidence interval -17.7pp to +5.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

2.4%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

31.7%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 54 decks
2 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 50 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 49 decks
4 Camellia, the Seedmiser 11 decks
5 The Odd Acorn Gang 4 decks
6 Esix, Fractal Bloom 3 decks
7 Thromok the Insatiable 3 decks
8 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
9 Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord 2 decks
10 Toski, Bearer of Secrets 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.