Live Play Data

Casualties of War

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1270

Decks Running

624

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=142

10%

68%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 30% (26 / 142 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1270 brought · 579 players

Brought to game

1270

Ever drawn

268

Reached battlefield

142

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=118) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=786).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=106).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

341 instances

3.5%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

54.5%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 133 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 119 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 89 decks
4 Hazel of the Rootbloom 70 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 38 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 20 decks
7 The Master, Transcendent 7 decks
8 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 6 decks
9 Savra, Queen of the Golgari 6 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 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 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.