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Sifter of Skulls

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

202

Decks Running

104

In Decks

672

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

50 instances

30.0%

Battlefield

36.0%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

26.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 22 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 18 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 18 decks
4 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 9 decks
5 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 5 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
7 Syr Konrad, the Grim 2 decks
8 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 2 decks
9 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist 1 decks
10 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

203

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=31) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=133).

Observed gap +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 25% (5 / 32 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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.