Live Play Data

Casualties of War

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

996

Decks Running

500

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108

67%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 30% (20 / 108 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

996 brought · 463 players

Brought to game

996

Ever drawn

206

Reached battlefield

108

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=92) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=626).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=83).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

259 instances

3.5%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

54.1%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 119 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 93 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 66 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 50 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 29 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 6 decks
8 The Master, Transcendent 6 decks
9 High Perfect Morcant 5 decks
10 Sarulf, Realm Eater 5 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.