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Culling Ritual

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

817

Decks Running

441

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

222 instances

2.7%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

45.5%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 109 decks
2 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 19 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 12 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 12 decks
5 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 11 decks
6 The Gitrog Monster 11 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 10 decks
8 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 10 decks
9 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 9 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

819 brought · 411 players

Brought to game

819

Ever drawn

185

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=59) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=416).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=83).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=70

17%

54%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 27% (12 / 70 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.