Card Preview

Grim Backwoods

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

772

Decks Running

417

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Grim Backwoods

Land

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

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

Final zone distribution

191 instances

2.1%

Library

68.6%

Battlefield

10.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 147 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 77 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 33 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 17 decks
5 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 14 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 10 decks
7 Lord Windgrace 9 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 8 decks
9 Child of Alara 6 decks
10 Gorma, the Gullet 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

773 brought · 392 players

Brought to game

773

Ever drawn

170

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

131

Once cast, 96% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=110) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=381).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +6.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=137

16%

20%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 50%

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.