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Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

833

Decks Running

439

In Decks

3098

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

222 instances

5.0%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

45.9%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

833 brought · 394 players

Brought to game

833

Ever drawn

188

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=89) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=544).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=85) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=96

14%

56%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 14% (7 / 96 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

96 of 100 times cast 96%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.