Live Play Data

Culling the Weak

· Instant · Exodus (EXO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4108

Decks Running

1652

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=570

12%

14%

17%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 2% (14 / 570 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

4109 brought · 1255 players

Brought to game

4109

Ever drawn

955

Reached battlefield

570

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=501) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2570).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=334).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1128 instances

2.5%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

55.2%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 137 decks
2 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 61 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 53 decks
4 Edgar Markov 46 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 41 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 40 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 37 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 30 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 26 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 decks

Card text

Culling the Weak

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}

Exodus (EXO) · Common · Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.