Live Play Data

Tendershoot Dryad

· Creature — Dryad · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2175

Decks Running

977

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=346

10%

22%

55%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 34% (77 / 346 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

2177 brought · 880 players

Brought to game

2177

Ever drawn

547

Reached battlefield

346

Still on board at game end

196

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=328) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1482).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=188).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

575 instances

2.1%

Library

34.1%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 192 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 129 decks
3 Shroofus Sproutsire 99 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 81 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 27 decks
6 Slimefoot, the Stowaway 27 decks
7 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 25 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
9 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 15 decks
10 Volo, Guide to Monsters 15 decks

Card text

Tendershoot Dryad

Creature — Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Evyn Fong

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 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.