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Selective Obliteration

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

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Times Brought

164

Decks Running

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

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

43 instances

2.3%

Library

11.6%

Battlefield

41.9%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 32 decks
2 Molecule Man 10 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 6 decks
4 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 6 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 3 decks
6 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 2 decks
7 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 2 decks
8 Krang, Utrom Warlord 2 decks
9 The Thanos-Copter 2 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

164 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

164

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=19) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=96).

Observed gap +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

74%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 9% (2 / 23 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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

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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.