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Soul Shatter

· Instant · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

507

Decks Running

270

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

118 instances

0.8%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

52.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 22 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 19 decks
3 Vren, the Relentless 17 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 13 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 10 decks
6 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 8 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 7 decks
8 Lord of the Nazgûl 6 decks
9 Sarulf, Realm Eater 6 decks
10 Edgar Markov 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

507 brought · 245 players

Brought to game

507

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=45) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=287).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=33).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=57

16%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 7% (2 / 57 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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.