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Erode

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

1020

Decks Running

509

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

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

Final zone distribution

221 instances

10.4%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

63.8%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 18 decks
2 Whtz, the Bibliophile 16 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 14 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 13 decks
5 Toph, the First Metalbender 12 decks
6 Quintorius, History Chaser 8 decks
7 Edgar Markov 7 decks
8 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 7 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

1064 brought · 439 players

Brought to game

1064

Ever drawn

205

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=110) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=590).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=44).

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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +6.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=140

11%

23%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 3% (4 / 140 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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.