Live Play Data

Erode

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1984

Decks Running

849

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=330

13%

15%

52%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 1% (2 / 330 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1985 brought · 688 players

Brought to game

1985

Ever drawn

459

Reached battlefield

330

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=294) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1292).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=113).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +11.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

508 instances

4.5%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

65.7%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Erode

Instant

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Florian Herold

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.