Commander

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Global commander stats

All Selesnya commanders

1079 Wins

1844 Losses

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Overview

Summary

Sythis, Harvest's Hand is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 2,933 recorded Playgroup games, winning 36% of them (1079–1844) at an Elo of 1,646, ranking #231 globally.

Wins average 9 turns, with 107378 damage dealt and 0.67 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 25 Aug 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Sythis, Harvest's Hand's win rate?

Sythis, Harvest's Hand has a 36% win rate across 2933 recorded Playgroup games (1079 wins, 1844 losses).

How long do winning games with Sythis, Harvest's Hand take?

Wins with Sythis, Harvest's Hand take on average 9 turns. Total tracked play time: about 1 month.

How many decks use Sythis, Harvest's Hand?

1,167 decks list Sythis, Harvest's Hand as their commander on Playgroup, of which 587 have played at least one recorded game.

Sythis, Harvest's Hand Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

231

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1646

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 107378

Average commander damage per game 8

Average poison counters given per game 6

Average kills per game 0.67

Average turn length 2 minutes

No. decks for this commander 1167

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 587

No. games played with this commander 2933

Total hours played about 1 month

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1719	Starman3000	17	12	71 %
2	1715	Loyd Huhn	35	20	57 %
3	1706	RofellosDeservedBetter	79	57	72 %
4	1661	Samuel S	24	11	46 %
5	1650	Juan Francisco Pineda	66	24	36 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Sythis, Harvest's Hand wins, 55.02% of wins come via combat across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Combat

55.02%

Commander Damage

17.11%

Alternative

10.75%

Combo

8.63%

Non Combat Damage

7.92%

Mill

0.42%

Poison

0.14%

Avg win turn 8.7 based on 1135 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Sythis, Harvest's Hand decks that leave them out.

+19.2 pp

Top card: Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Dryad of the Ilysian Grove 139 games	+19.2 pp	139
2	Hallowed Haunting 164 games	+15.3 pp	164
3	Bountiful Promenade 117 games	+12.7 pp	117
4	Authority of the Consuls 137 games	+12.7 pp	137
5	Grasp of Fate 156 games	+12.5 pp	156
6	Overgrown Farmland Signature build 100 games · Signature build	+12.4 pp	100
7	Heroic Intervention Signature build 106 games · Signature build	+12.2 pp	106
8	Windswept Heath 130 games	+9.1 pp	130
9	Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway 102 games	+7.5 pp	102
10	Ghostly Prison 160 games	+7.5 pp	160

Show 5 more (ranks 11-15)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Sungrass Prairie 119 games	+5.7 pp	119
12	Path to Exile 137 games	+5.3 pp	137
13	Hall of Heliod's Generosity 149 games	+5.3 pp	149
14	Greater Auramancy 115 games	+3.7 pp	115
15	Sunpetal Grove 132 games	+3.4 pp	132

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Sythis, Harvest's Hand wins 60.0% of games from position 6 and 21.82% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

45.21% n=803

Seat 2

41.15% n=814

Seat 3

32.55% n=639

Seat 4

25.28% n=447

Seat 5

21.82% n=55

Seat 6

60.0% n=10

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Sythis, Harvest's Hand wins 38.04% after 0 mulligans and 33.33% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

38.04% n=1396

1 mulligan

37.05% n=417

2 mulligans

31.06% n=132

3 mulligans

35.0% n=40

4 mulligans

36.36% n=11

5 mulligans

0.0% n=1

6 mulligans

33.33% n=3

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Sythis, Harvest's Hand 3.68/5 on average, across 1845 self-reports.

3.68 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Sythis, Harvest's Hand wins, opponents flag the game as salty 60.8% of the time across 1135 tracked wins.

60.8 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Sythis, Harvest's Hand. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.