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Dina, Essence Brewer

· Legendary Creature — Dryad Druid · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

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

Dina, Essence Brewer

Legendary Creature — Dryad Druid

Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {2}

, Sacrifice another creature: You gain X life and put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Pauline Voss

Final zone distribution

51 instances

2.0%

Library

37.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

2.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 7 decks
2 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 7 decks
3 Tom, Bert, and William 7 decks
4 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 6 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 5 decks
7 Gorma, the Gullet 4 decks
8 The Muckslinger Gang 3 decks
9 Zimone and Dina 3 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=22) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=290

18%

26%

24%

12%

16%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 17

On curve 47% (75 / 290 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.