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Pest Rescuer

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

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Times Brought

201

Decks Running

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 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

Final zone distribution

47 instances

29.8%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

25.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

202 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

202

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=22) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=106).

Observed gap +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

22%

16%

13%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 34% (7 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 53%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.