Live Play Data

Casualties of War

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

761

Decks Running

390

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

11%

68%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 31% (14 / 80 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

761 brought · 359 players

Brought to game

761

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=67) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=458).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=63).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances

3.1%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

54.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 98 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 66 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 52 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 39 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 26 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 6 decks
8 High Perfect Morcant 5 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 4 decks
10 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 4 decks

Card text

Casualties of War

Sorcery

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Destroy target land. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nereida

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.