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Teacher's Pest

· Creature — Skeleton Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

211

Decks Running

107

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

Teacher's Pest

Creature — Skeleton Pest

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life. {B}

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

1 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Stephanie Cheung

Final zone distribution

54 instances

38.9%

Battlefield

31.5%

Graveyard

14.8%

Exile

14.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

212 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

212

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=29) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=109).

Observed gap +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -9.1pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

25%

13%

10%

28%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 38% (5 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

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

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.