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Tend the Pests

· Instant · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

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Times Brought

276

Decks Running

113

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

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

56 instances

3.6%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

276

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

First-cast turn

n=21

57%

T6-9

38%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 11

On curve 0% (0 / 21 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.