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Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1306

Decks Running

680

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

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

331 instances

2.4%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

44.4%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 153 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 30 decks
3 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 24 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 23 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 17 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 17 decks
7 The Gitrog Monster 16 decks
8 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 14 decks
9 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 13 decks
10 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

1308 brought · 623 players

Brought to game

1308

Ever drawn

281

Reached battlefield

112

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=90) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=668).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +10.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=112

13%

10%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 22% (15 / 112 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.