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Soul Shatter

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

386

Decks Running

228

In Decks

1483

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Soul Shatter

Instant

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Rare · Illustrated by Wylie Beckert

Final zone distribution

101 instances

1.0%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

60.4%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kardur, Doomscourge 17 decks
2 Vren, the Relentless 14 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 12 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 9 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
7 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 7 decks
8 Sarulf, Realm Eater 5 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 5 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

387 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

387

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=51) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=254).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=28) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

18%

44%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 4% (2 / 55 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

55 of 100 times cast 55%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.