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Anguished Unmaking

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

3772

Decks Running

1830

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

Anguished Unmaking

Instant

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Wesley Burt

Final zone distribution

794 instances

2.0%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

57.4%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 112 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 104 decks
3 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 82 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 76 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 70 decks
6 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 70 decks
7 Killian, Decisive Mentor 65 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 49 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 42 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 34 decks

The "good card" funnel

3772 brought · 1382 players

Brought to game

3772

Ever drawn

734

Reached battlefield

466

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=371) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2194).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=200).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +3.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=466

14%

16%

49%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 10% (33 / 466 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.