Live Play Data

Pest Infestation

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1879

Decks Running

932

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=255

18%

55%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1879 brought · 833 players

Brought to game

1879

Ever drawn

421

Reached battlefield

255

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=230) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1223).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=145).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

454 instances

2.4%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 164 decks
2 Dina, Essence Brewer 153 decks
3 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 103 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 84 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 72 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 27 decks
7 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 25 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 19 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 19 decks
10 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 19 decks

Card text

Pest Infestation

Sorcery

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.