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Tend the Pests

· Instant · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

In Decks

357

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

31 instances

6.5%

Library

41.9%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

41.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

16 of 100 times cast 16%

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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.