Live Play Data

Woodland Cemetery

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

36%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2568

Decks Running

1266

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Woodland Cemetery appears in 36% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live. When drawn, 81% of copies reach play, and it holds the battlefield 94% of the time once it lands.

Woodland Cemetery is a format staple for any black-green deck that can reliably pair it with a Swamp or Forest. Across 2346 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live, it sits in 36% of decks and has been brought to the table 2570 times by 1012 distinct players.

The card's draw-to-play rate of 81% reflects how reliably players put it into play when it reaches their hand. Median first-cast turn is 4.0, though the distribution clusters heavily around turns 1-2 for opening-hand copies. Once it resolves, 94% stickiness means it almost never leaves play before the game ends. That is what you expect from a functional dual land.

The concentration data is a strength of this dataset: 1012 unique players have brought Woodland Cemetery to a tracked game, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for just 2% of all instances. The signal is well-spread across the player base, not driven by one prolific user.

At a glance

36% of tracked Commander decks include Woodland Cemetery
81% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before game end
T4.0 median first-cast turn
94% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
1012 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
25% draw rate per game it was included in

First-cast turn

n=510

15%

18%

14%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

2570 brought · 1012 players

Brought to game

2570

Ever drawn

631

Reached battlefield

510

Still on board at game end

478

81%

Of 2570 copies brought to games, 631 were drawn and 510 of those were played, confirming that when players find this land, they put it into play at a high rate.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=468) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1603).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=103) — 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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

711 instances

1.7%

Library

67.2%

Battlefield

15.2%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Most copies that were brought to a game finished on the battlefield, a direct reflection of the card's high stickiness once it enters play. The large library count represents the majority of instances that were simply never drawn across 2346 tracked games.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 92 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 66 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 65 decks
4 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 57 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 55 decks
6 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 45 decks
7 Witherbloom, the Balancer 42 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 37 decks
9 Hazel of the Rootbloom 36 decks
10 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 33 decks

The commander list spans pure Golgari builds and three-color commanders that include black and green, showing that Woodland Cemetery earns its slot across the full range of decks that can legally run it, not just one archetype.

Card text

Woodland Cemetery

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Christine Choi

Frequently Asked

How often is Woodland Cemetery drawn in a Commander game?

In 2346 tracked games where Woodland Cemetery was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That sits in the normal range for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 631 copies that reached a player's hand, 81% were played before the game ended.

What turn does Woodland Cemetery typically enter the battlefield?

Median first-cast turn is 4.0. The distribution peaks at turns 1 and 2, capturing copies in opening hands that go down immediately. The interquartile range runs from turn 2 to turn 7, which reflects both early-hand copies and later draws. The mode is turn 2, consistent with players keeping a hand that contains it and playing it on their second turn after a turn-1 Forest or Swamp.

Does playing Woodland Cemetery actually help you win?

Decks that cast Woodland Cemetery win 28% of games in the tracked dataset, compared to 23% when the card stayed in the library. The delta is a directional early signal across a meaningful sample, but it reflects overall deck quality as much as the card's individual contribution. Lands are infrastructure: they rarely swing win rates on their own.

Is Woodland Cemetery legal in Commander?

Yes. Woodland Cemetery is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, and several other formats. It is not legal in Standard, Pauper, or Pauper Commander.

Which commanders most often run Woodland Cemetery?

Among Playgroup Live tracked decks, Dina, Essence Brewer leads with the most copies, followed by The Wise Mothman, Teval the Balanced Scale, Auntie Ool Cursewretch, and Felothar the Steadfast. The spread covers pure Golgari (B/G) commanders as well as three-color commanders that include both black and green. That breadth is expected for a dual land that fits any deck with those two colors.

How concentrated is the Woodland Cemetery data across players?

1012 distinct players have brought Woodland Cemetery to a tracked game on Playgroup Live. The single heaviest contributor accounts for just 2% of all instances. That is well under the threshold where one player's habits could meaningfully skew the aggregate numbers, which gives us confidence the patterns here reflect the broader play community rather than a single active user.