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Pest Infestation

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1700

Decks Running

817

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

309 instances

2.3%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

54.4%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 158 decks
2 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 145 decks
3 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 86 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 67 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 51 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 39 decks
7 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 36 decks
8 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 29 decks
9 Ygra, Eater of All 23 decks
10 Baylen, the Haymaker 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1703 brought · 721 players

Brought to game

1703

Ever drawn

283

Reached battlefield

170

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=131) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=956).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=78).

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 +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=170

11%

13%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.