Live Play Data

Smothering Abomination

· Creature — Eldrazi · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

240

Decks Running

127

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

57%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 11% (3 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 119 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=26) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=176).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

37.0%

Battlefield

17.4%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

37.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 75 decks
2 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 9 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 3 decks
4 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher 3 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 3 decks
6 The Serpent Society 3 decks
7 Gorma, the Gullet 2 decks
8 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest 2 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 2 decks
10 Acererak the Archlich 1 decks

Card text

Smothering Abomination

Creature — Eldrazi

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.