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Star of Extinction

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

100

In Decks

587

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Star of Extinction

Sorcery

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

41 instances

4.9%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

17.1%

Exile

39.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Impenetrable 31 decks
2 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 9 decks
3 Firesong and Sunspeaker 5 decks
4 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 5 decks
5 Zurgo Helmsmasher 5 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 4 decks
7 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 3 decks
8 Fin Fang Foom 2 decks
9 Jared Carthalion, True Heir 2 decks
10 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=19) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=16) — 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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.1pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

20%

60%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 60% (2 / 20 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.