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Festering Thicket

Land — Swamp Forest · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1082

Decks Running

576

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

Festering Thicket

Land — Swamp Forest

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.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2}

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jakob Eirich

Final zone distribution

292 instances

1.4%

Library

63.0%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1084 brought · 518 players

Brought to game

1084

Ever drawn

275

Reached battlefield

205

Still on board at game end

184

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=143) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=538).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=54).

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 -2.5pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=205

32%

10%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 66%

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.