Live Play Data

Send in the Pest

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

271

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

19%

10%

17%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 19% (8 / 42 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

271 brought · 122 players

Brought to game

271

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=42) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=195).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.4pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

62 instances

79.0%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

17.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 55 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 11 decks
3 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 8 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
5 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance 5 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 4 decks
7 Beledros Witherbloom 2 decks
8 Dina, Soul Steeper 2 decks
9 Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord 2 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks

Card text

Send in the Pest

Sorcery

Each opponent discards a card. You create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Raluca Marinescu

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.