Live Play Data

Tendershoot Dryad

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1305

Decks Running

654

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=214

15%

21%

48%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 41% (46 / 214 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

1307 brought · 596 players

Brought to game

1307

Ever drawn

323

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

120

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=187) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=836).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=97).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

335 instances

2.1%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

26.0%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 152 decks
2 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 81 decks
3 Shroofus Sproutsire 67 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 58 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 20 decks
6 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 18 decks
7 Slimefoot, the Stowaway 15 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 12 decks
9 Ghave, Guru of Spores 12 decks
10 Jetmir, Nexus of Revels 12 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 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.