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Deep Forest Hermit

· Creature — Elf Druid · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

284

Decks Running

137

In Decks

923

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

70 instances

2.9%

Library

37.1%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hazel of the Rootbloom 40 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 37 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 33 decks
4 Camellia, the Seedmiser 9 decks
5 The Odd Acorn Gang 4 decks
6 Esix, Fractal Bloom 3 decks
7 Atraxa, Grand Unifier 2 decks
8 Meatsqueak, Hoard Lord 2 decks
9 Thromok the Insatiable 2 decks
10 Toski, Bearer of Secrets 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

284 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

284

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -18.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=45) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15) — 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 -5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -18.4pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47

62%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 21% (4 / 47 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

47 of 100 times cast 47%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.