Live Play Data

Pest Infestation

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1386

Decks Running

678

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

19%

52%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1386 brought · 605 players

Brought to game

1386

Ever drawn

307

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=173) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=914).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=104).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

326 instances

2.5%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

59.8%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 123 decks
2 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 106 decks
3 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 85 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 62 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 48 decks
6 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 21 decks
7 Ygra, Eater of All 20 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 12 decks
10 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 10 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.