Live Play Data

Soul Shatter

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1001

Decks Running

497

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=149

10%

14%

49%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 7% (8 / 149 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1003 brought · 429 players

Brought to game

1003

Ever drawn

224

Reached battlefield

149

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=129) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=641).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=68).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

259 instances

3.1%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

61.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kardur, Doomscourge 33 decks
2 Vren, the Relentless 28 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 27 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 26 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 22 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 20 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 20 decks
8 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 9 decks
9 Edgar Markov 8 decks
10 Silverquill, the Disputant 8 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.