Live Play Data

Witherbloom, the Balancer

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

112

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=328

24%

29%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 94% (14 / 328 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=41) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=32).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

2.3%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Witherbloom, the Balancer

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Affinity for creatures (This spell costs {1}

less to cast for each creature you control.) Flying, deathtouch Instant and sorcery spells you cast have affinity for creatures.

5 / 5

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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.