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Culling the Weak

· Instant · Exodus (EXO)

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Times Brought

1487

Decks Running

741

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 the Weak

Instant

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

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

Final zone distribution

336 instances

1.2%

Library

7.7%

Battlefield

48.8%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 68 decks
2 Edgar Markov 30 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 30 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 26 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 14 decks
8 Silverquill, the Disputant 14 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 13 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

1487 brought · 607 players

Brought to game

1487

Ever drawn

295

Reached battlefield

178

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=135) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=823).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=86).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=178

10%

11%

19%

13%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 7% (13 / 178 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.