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Woe Strider

· Creature — Horror · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

434

Decks Running

225

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

Woe Strider

Creature — Horror

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape— {3}

, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Thacker

Final zone distribution

110 instances

33.6%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

22.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 68 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 24 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 23 decks
4 Captain N'ghathrod 10 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 9 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 6 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
8 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim 5 decks
9 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 4 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

435 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

435

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=66) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.0pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=73

11%

14%

21%

15%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 26% (10 / 73 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

73 of 100 times cast 73%

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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.