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Heartwood Storyteller
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Creature — Treefolk
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Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
163
Decks Running
83
In Decks
462
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Card text
Heartwood Storyteller
Creature — Treefolk
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.
2 / 3
Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Anthony S. Waters
Final zone distribution
53 instances18.9%
Battlefield
35.8%
Graveyard
7.5%
Exile
37.7%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Gluntch, the Bestower
13 decks
-
2
Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis
13 decks
-
3
Xyris, the Writhing Storm
10 decks
-
4
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
7 decks
-
5
Kenrith, the Returned King
3 decks
-
6
Ms. Bumbleflower
3 decks
-
7
Child of Alara
2 decks
-
8
Doran, the Siege Tower
2 decks
-
9
Nikya of the Old Ways
2 decks
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10
Phelddagrif
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
163 brought · 81 playersBrought to game
163
Ever drawn
50
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
10
Once cast, 43% 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.
≥ -10.1pp
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=21) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=95).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 58% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +30.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=23
0%
T1
9%
T2
17%
T3
9%
T4
9%
T5
57%
T6-9
0%
T10+
Median
6
P25
3
· P75
8
· max
9
On curve
26%
(4 / 23 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
48%
23 of 100 times cast
23%
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.