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Tainted Wood

Land · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

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Times Brought

1852

Decks Running

893

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

Tainted Wood

Land

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. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Rob Alexander

Final zone distribution

424 instances

1.2%

Library

67.2%

Battlefield

15.1%

Graveyard

2.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 93 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 88 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 74 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 36 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 34 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 31 decks
7 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 29 decks
8 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 25 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 24 decks
10 Chief of the Wilds 22 decks

The "good card" funnel

1853 brought · 777 players

Brought to game

1853

Ever drawn

366

Reached battlefield

292

Still on board at game end

285

Once cast, 98% 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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=230) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1003).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=55).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=292

17%

13%

12%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 60%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.