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Decimate

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

725

Decks Running

340

In Decks

2603

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Decimate

Sorcery

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros

Final zone distribution

184 instances

2.7%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

57.1%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

728 brought · 323 players

Brought to game

728

Ever drawn

165

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=97) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=468).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=53) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.6pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=105

10%

12%

58%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 12% (10 / 105 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

706 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.