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Exsanguinate

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

2091

Decks Running

1097

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

Exsanguinate

Sorcery

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Marie Magny

Final zone distribution

454 instances

1.8%

Library

12.6%

Battlefield

37.0%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 188 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 57 decks
3 Zaxara, the Exemplary 35 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 31 decks
5 Edgar Markov 26 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 26 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 26 decks
8 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 22 decks
9 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 18 decks
10 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 18 decks

The "good card" funnel

2091 brought · 913 players

Brought to game

2091

Ever drawn

419

Reached battlefield

192

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=137) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=165).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=192

10%

56%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 21

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.