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Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

138

Decks Running

In Decks

465

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

38 instances

5.3%

Library

18.4%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

31.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 57 decks
2 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 5 decks
3 Gorion, Wise Mentor 3 decks
4 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 3 decks
5 Eshki Dragonclaw 2 decks
6 Ezuri, Claw of Progress 2 decks
7 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 1 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
10 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

138

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 26% 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.

≥ -19.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=86).

Observed gap -4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -19.7pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

30%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 9

Cast same turn as drawn 48%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.