Shrewd Storyteller DSK 0232 · uncommon
Shrewd Storyteller · {1}{G}{W} · Creature — Human Survivor · Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. · Power / toughness: 3/3 · All his tales are cautionary.
- Price
- from $0.131 printing
- Win rate
- 51.0% GIH 15,940 instances · Premier Draft
Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickIts survival trigger puts a counter on a creature when it is tapped at the start of the second main phase and on resolution. A safe tap outlet can enable it without forcing a losing attack.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 8,122 wins in 15,940 card-in-hand instances.
14,282 distinct games · 5,192 distinct drafts · games recorded Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024.
17Lands file dated Oct 29, 2024 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Its survival trigger puts a counter on a creature when it is tapped at the start of the second main phase and on resolution. A safe tap outlet can enable it without forcing a losing attack.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Build a creature board that can tap safely before the second main phase, collecting survival counters, cards and life without donating creatures to bad attacks.
- What to take next
- Attach Baseball Bat to a survival creature to tap a blocker when it attacks, or cast Coordinated Clobbering before the second main phase to tap an untapped survivor while removing a threat.
- Wrong pick
- Survival checks tapped status at the second main phase and again on resolution. After a tapped Cautious Survivor's trigger exists, destroying it uses last tapped status and does not stop its life gain.
- Mana & splash
- Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Its survival trigger puts a counter on a creature when it is tapped at the start of the second main phase and on resolution. A safe tap outlet can enable it without forcing a losing attack.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Its survival trigger puts a counter on a creature when it is tapped at the start of the second main phase and on resolution. A safe tap outlet can enable it without forcing a losing attack.
Draft data
−3.5 pp vs 54.5% average · 15,940 instances
Premier Draft · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024 · average from 1,011,949 games
#228 of 261 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 5.3 on average (115,632 packs).
30 of 34 multicolor cards · 19 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.
37,189.2 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 52.1% · 7,027 instances
● Drawn later 50.0% · 8,913 instances
In hand 51.0% · 15,940 instances
Unseen in deck 51.7% · 25,277 instances
−0.7 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Survival GW52.4%9,205 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (51.0% · 15,940 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Monstrous Emergence15,011 games with both in the deckBaseball Bat14,342 games with both in the deckFlesh Burrower14,037 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 13% of 261 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Sep 24–Oct 28, 2024
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · MTGO Redemption | $0.13 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · collector-sample · Play Booster | $0.22 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 27 packs (3.70%) · 36.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a collector-sample · Modeled · About 1 in 100 packs (1.00%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
| Collector Booster Sample Pack | Foil uncommon | 100% | Foil uncommon |
Wizards · Collecting Duskmourn: House of Horror ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- David Palumbo, DSK 232 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Survival cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Duskmourn: House of Horror release notes · Oct 19, 2026
Wizards · Collecting Duskmourn: House of Horror · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗