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Selective Obliteration

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

102

In Decks

694

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Selective Obliteration

Sorcery

Each player chooses a color. Then exile each permanent unless it's colorless or it's only the color its controller chose.

Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Final zone distribution

57 instances

1.8%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 27 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 18 decks
3 Molecule Man 14 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 8 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 4 decks
6 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 3 decks
7 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 3 decks
8 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 3 decks
9 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 2 decks
10 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -19.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=17) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=127).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -19.0pp to +23.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

74%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 17% (2 / 23 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.