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Sifter of Skulls

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

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Times Brought

398

Decks Running

182

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

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

79 instances

38.0%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

29.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 54 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 37 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 25 decks
4 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 13 decks
5 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 4 decks
6 Syr Konrad, the Grim 3 decks
7 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 2 decks
8 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 2 decks
9 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 2 decks
10 Kels, Fight Fixer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

398 brought · 179 players

Brought to game

398

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=39) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +9.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

21%

15%

44%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 31% (11 / 52 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.