Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend SOS 0199 · uncommon
Lluwen, Exchange Student · {2}{B}{G} · Legendary Creature — Elf Druid · Lluwen enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.) Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Lluwen becomes prepared. Activate only as a sorcery. · Power / toughness: 3/4
Pest Friend · {B/G} · Sorcery · Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
- Price
- from $0.251 printing
- Win rate
- 56.4% GIH 15,856 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickMake small creatures that gain life on attack, then deploy infusion cards after combat and rebuild when creatures trade.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 8,949 wins in 15,856 card-in-hand instances.
15,057 distinct games · 5,701 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.
17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Make small creatures that gain life on attack, then deploy infusion cards after combat and rebuild when creatures trade. Attack with the Pest on a later turn to gain life, then play Apprentice in the second main phase for its removal trigger.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Make small creatures that gain life on attack, then deploy infusion cards after combat and rebuild when creatures trade. Look for support such as Send in the Pest and Poisoner's Apprentice.
- What to take next
- Attack with the Pest on a later turn to gain life, then play Apprentice in the second main phase for its removal trigger.
- Wrong pick
- These Pest tokens gain life when attacking, unlike the original Strixhaven tokens. Having a Pest does not itself enable infusion.
- Mana & splash
- Count the colored sources needed to cast this card on time; a synergy payoff is not a reason to weaken an otherwise consistent mana base.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Make small creatures that gain life on attack, then deploy infusion cards after combat and rebuild when creatures trade. Attack with the Pest on a later turn to gain life, then play Apprentice in the second main phase for its removal trigger.
Draft data
+1.1 pp vs 55.4% average · 15,856 instances
Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games
#136 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.8 on average (52,199 packs).
43 of 83 multicolor cards · 18 of 35 multicolor uncommon cards.
10,979 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 54.1% · 6,316 instances
● Drawn later 58.0% · 9,540 instances
In hand 56.4% · 15,856 instances
Unseen in deck 53.2% · 21,719 instances
+3.2 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
Witherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG57.6%8,325 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (56.4% · 15,856 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.
Bogwater Lumaret19,474 games with both in the deckGrapple with Death19,143 games with both in the deckPest Mascot17,949 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 58% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · prerelease-witherbloom | $0.25 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.26 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 33 packs (3.00%) · 30.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 298 packs (0.34%) · 9.6% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 30 packs (3.38%) · 64.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 9 packs (11.11%) · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · 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
- Alix Branwyn, SOS 199 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Witherbloom Lifegain Swarm cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗