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Selective Obliteration

· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C)

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Times Brought

535

Decks Running

257

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

125 instances

1.6%

Library

8.8%

Battlefield

45.6%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 92 decks
2 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 22 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of the Void 21 decks
4 Molecule Man 19 decks
5 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 18 decks
6 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 10 decks
7 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 9 decks
8 Karn, Legacy Reforged 6 decks
9 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 5 decks
10 Krang, Utrom Warlord 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

535 brought · 234 players

Brought to game

535

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.1pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=56) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=303).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=37).

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 -5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.1pp to +1.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=72

14%

64%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 19% (10 / 72 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.