Live Play Data

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

· Creature — Otter // Sorcery — Adventure · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

280

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=56

20%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

280 brought · 139 players

Brought to game

280

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 29% 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.

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=53) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=20).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

20.3%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

27.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 101 decks
2 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 6 decks
3 Eshki Dragonclaw 4 decks
4 Gorion, Wise Mentor 4 decks
5 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 4 decks
6 Ezuri, Claw of Progress 3 decks
7 Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief 3 decks
8 Kellan, the Kid 3 decks
9 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
10 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks

Card text

Elusive Otter

Creature — Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it.

1 / 1

Grove's Bounty

Sorcery — Adventure

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Christina Kraus

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.