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Abrade

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

4147

Decks Running

2091

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

Abrade

Instant

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

Final zone distribution

815 instances

1.5%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

64.4%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 145 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 134 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 112 decks
4 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 87 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 48 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 40 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 37 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 35 decks
9 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 34 decks
10 Shiko and Narset, Unified 34 decks

The "good card" funnel

4147 brought · 1623 players

Brought to game

4147

Ever drawn

761

Reached battlefield

531

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=411) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2362).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=167).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=531

12%

17%

15%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 10% (40 / 531 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.