Live Play Data

Soul Shatter

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1385

Decks Running

677

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=199

12%

13%

53%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 6% (9 / 199 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1387 brought · 584 players

Brought to game

1387

Ever drawn

306

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=176) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=883).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=96).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

352 instances

2.8%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

61.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kardur, Doomscourge 45 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 41 decks
3 Vren, the Relentless 37 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 33 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 28 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 23 decks
8 Edgar Markov 14 decks
9 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 11 decks
10 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 11 decks

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

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.