Live Play Data

Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1179

Decks Running

621

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=132

10%

17%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 16% (13 / 132 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1179 brought · 553 players

Brought to game

1179

Ever drawn

272

Reached battlefield

132

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=123) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=749).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=119).

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 +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

321 instances

5.0%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

45.2%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 119 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 25 decks
3 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 19 decks
4 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 19 decks
5 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 17 decks
6 Ygra, Eater of All 15 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 14 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 13 decks
9 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 13 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks

Card text

Culling Ritual

Sorcery

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B}

for each permanent destroyed this way.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

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.