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Mutilate

· Sorcery · Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana (GVL)

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Times Brought

376

Decks Running

197

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

Mutilate

Sorcery

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana (GVL) · Rare · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

63.5%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Szarekh, the Silent King 53 decks
2 Ghoulcaller Gisa 17 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 17 decks
4 Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath 9 decks
5 Imotekh the Stormlord 7 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
7 Maha, Its Feathers Night 4 decks
8 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 4 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
10 Trazyn the Infinite 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

376 brought · 183 players

Brought to game

376

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.2pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=17) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=210).

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

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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.2pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

28%

52%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 8% (1 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.