Live Play Data

Grim Backwoods

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1196

Decks Running

590

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=246

16%

13%

11%

30%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

1196 brought · 544 players

Brought to game

1196

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

246

Still on board at game end

234

Once cast, 95% 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.

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=239) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=806).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=47).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

315 instances

1.6%

Library

74.3%

Battlefield

9.8%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 180 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 88 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 47 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 32 decks
5 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 20 decks
6 Kathril, Aspect Warper 15 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 13 decks
8 Lord Windgrace 12 decks
9 Child of Alara 11 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 11 decks

Card text

Grim Backwoods

Land

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, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Vincent Proce

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.