Live Play Data

Culling the Weak

· Instant · Exodus (EXO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3208

Decks Running

1344

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=439

13%

16%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 3% (12 / 439 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

3209 brought · 1036 players

Brought to game

3209

Ever drawn

731

Reached battlefield

439

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=385) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2011).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=252).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

871 instances

2.3%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

56.1%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 113 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 45 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 43 decks
4 Edgar Markov 39 decks
5 Silverquill, the Disputant 33 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 33 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 31 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 27 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 22 decks
10 Marneus Calgar 17 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 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.