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Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life

· Creature — Bear Druid // Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

133

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

Vastlands Scavenger

Creature — Bear Druid

Deathtouch This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

4 / 4

Bind to Life

Instant

Mill seven cards. Then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Bryan Sola

Final zone distribution

63 instances

4.8%

Library

38.1%

Battlefield

17.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=28) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=15).

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 -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

21%

13%

18%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 26% (8 / 39 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.