Live Play Data

Tend the Pests

· Instant · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

268

Decks Running

120

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

68%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

268

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=26) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=176).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=24).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

63 instances

4.8%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

50.8%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Tend the Pests

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Auden Nash

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.