Live Play Data

Soul Immolation

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

412

Decks Running

174

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

78%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 4% (1 / 51 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

412 brought · 161 players

Brought to game

412

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=50) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=250).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=54).

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 +25.8pp; 95% confidence interval +12.2pp to +39.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

124 instances

0.8%

Library

16.9%

Battlefield

31.5%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 29 decks
2 The Muckslinger Gang 12 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks
4 The Great Goblin 6 decks
5 Thromok the Insatiable 6 decks
6 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 6 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 4 decks
8 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 3 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 3 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 3 decks

Card text

Soul Immolation

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, blight X. X can't be greater than the greatest toughness among creatures you control. (Put X -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.) Soul Immolation deals X damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Mythic · Illustrated by Drew Tucker

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.