Live Play Data

Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2147

Decks Running

1038

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=265

14%

17%

50%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 20% (36 / 265 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

2147 brought · 917 players

Brought to game

2147

Ever drawn

525

Reached battlefield

265

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=246) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1337).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=225).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

618 instances

4.2%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 165 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 37 decks
3 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 35 decks
4 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 27 decks
5 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 26 decks
6 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 24 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 23 decks
8 Indominus Rex, Alpha 23 decks
9 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 22 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 22 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 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.