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Casualties of War

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

929

Decks Running

492

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

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

Final zone distribution

197 instances

2.0%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

50.8%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 130 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 73 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 69 decks
4 Teval, the Balanced Scale 56 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 41 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 21 decks
7 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 5 decks
8 Ygra, Eater of All 5 decks
9 High Perfect Morcant 4 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

930 brought · 457 players

Brought to game

930

Ever drawn

166

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=65) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=479).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=52).

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 +4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=94

10%

64%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 28% (15 / 94 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.