Live Play Data

Pest Rescuer

· Creature — Dryad Druid · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

610

Decks Running

304

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=122

11%

18%

35%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 20% (13 / 122 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

610 brought · 275 players

Brought to game

610

Ever drawn

159

Reached battlefield

122

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=111) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=384).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=29).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

2.4%

Library

38.5%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Pest Rescuer

Creature — Dryad Druid

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you don't control a Pest creature token, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Justine Cruz

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.