Live Play Data

Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1662

Decks Running

840

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=201

12%

15%

52%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 19% (25 / 201 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1662 brought · 754 players

Brought to game

1662

Ever drawn

394

Reached battlefield

201

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=185) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1036).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=167).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

464 instances

4.3%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

47.2%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.