Live Play Data

Soul Shatter

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1785

Decks Running

841

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=264

14%

53%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 5% (11 / 264 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1787 brought · 724 players

Brought to game

1787

Ever drawn

390

Reached battlefield

264

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=232) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=113).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

448 instances

2.7%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

61.8%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 54 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 50 decks
3 Vren, the Relentless 44 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 38 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 35 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 32 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 27 decks
8 Edgar Markov 16 decks
9 Jace, Multiverse Architect 16 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 15 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.