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Wirewood Symbiote

· Creature — Insect · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

248

Decks Running

118

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

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

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

53.8%

Battlefield

17.9%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marwyn, the Nurturer 16 decks
2 High Perfect Morcant 14 decks
3 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 13 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 8 decks
5 Radagast of Rhosgobel 7 decks
6 Dionus, Elvish Archdruid 6 decks
7 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind 4 decks
8 Maralen, Fae Ascendant 4 decks
9 Yeva, Nature's Herald 4 decks
10 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

248 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

248

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=23) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=151).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

11%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 19% (5 / 27 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

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.