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Witherbloom, the Balancer

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

217

Decks Running

In Decks

436

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

142 instances

0.7%

Library

57.0%

Battlefield

9.9%

Graveyard

1.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=28) , vs 40% when it never left the library (n=113).

Observed gap +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

23%

57%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 77% (5 / 30 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

30 of 100 times cast 30%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.