Live Play Data

Sifter of Skulls

· Creature — Eldrazi · Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

144

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=38

16%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 24% (6 / 38 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

287 brought · 137 players

Brought to game

287

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=36) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=20).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +23.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

28.4%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

31.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 32 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 25 decks
4 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 10 decks
5 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 5 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 3 decks
7 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 3 decks
8 Kels, Fight Fixer 2 decks
9 Massacre Girl 2 decks
10 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 2 decks

Card text

Sifter of Skulls

Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}

." (

represents colorless mana.)

4 / 3

Oath of the Gatewatch (OGW) · Rare · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.