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Abrade

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1293

Decks Running

669

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

265 instances

1.5%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

68.3%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 53 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 42 decks
3 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 38 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 18 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 16 decks
6 Shiko and Narset, Unified 15 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 11 decks
8 Zurgo Stormrender 11 decks
9 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 10 decks
10 Smaug the Impenetrable 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1293 brought · 563 players

Brought to game

1293

Ever drawn

246

Reached battlefield

182

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=148) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=789).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=50) — 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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=182

13%

18%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 14% (17 / 182 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

1489 of 300 tracked games 99%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.