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Essenceknit Scholar

· Creature — Dryad Warlock · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

101

Decks Running

In Decks

237

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Essenceknit Scholar

Creature — Dryad Warlock

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life." At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, draw a card.

3 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ioannis Fiore

Final zone distribution

30 instances

3.3%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 16 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 5 decks
3 Beledros Witherbloom 3 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 3 decks
5 Dina, Soul Steeper 3 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 1 decks
8 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 1 decks
9 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 1 decks
10 Pizza Face, Gastromancer 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

101 brought · 39 players

Brought to game

101

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -31.9pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=15) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=62).

Observed gap -13.2pp; 95% confidence interval -31.9pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

16 of 100 times cast 16%

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.