Live Play Data

Introduction to Annihilation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

291

Decks Running

135

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

21%

55%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 34% (8 / 38 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

291 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

291

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=33) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=185).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=21).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -13.9pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

7.8%

Library

48.1%

Graveyard

16.9%

Exile

27.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Iroh, Grand Lotus 22 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 12 decks
3 Molecule Man 10 decks
4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 10 decks
5 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 8 decks
6 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 6 decks
7 Karn, Silver Golem 5 decks
8 Ginger, Queen of Sweets 4 decks
9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 4 decks
10 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 3 decks

Card text

Introduction to Annihilation

Sorcery — Lesson

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Common · Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory

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.