Live Play Data

Wirewood Symbiote

· Creature — Insect · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

361

Decks Running

163

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

13%

25%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 9% (6 / 64 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 54%

The "good card" funnel

361 brought · 156 players

Brought to game

361

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=59) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=237).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=16).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.1pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

4.7%

Library

43.5%

Battlefield

29.4%

Graveyard

22.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 28 decks
2 Marwyn, the Nurturer 23 decks
3 High Perfect Morcant 13 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 11 decks
5 Radagast of Rhosgobel 10 decks
6 Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer 8 decks
7 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 6 decks
8 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid 5 decks
9 Eladamri, Korvecdal 4 decks
10 Galadriel, Light of Valinor 4 decks

Card text

Wirewood Symbiote

Creature — Insect

Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Thomas M. Baxa

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.