Live Play Data

Withering Curse

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

338

Decks Running

141

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

44%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

62%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 3% (1 / 34 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

338 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

338

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.2pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=33) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=42).

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 -21.2pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

95 instances

3.2%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

52.6%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Blech, Loafing Pest 14 decks
2 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 13 decks
3 Dina, Essence Brewer 11 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 9 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
7 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 5 decks
8 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 5 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 4 decks
10 Moseo, Vein's New Dean 4 decks

Card text

Withering Curse

Sorcery

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Infusion — If you gained life this turn, destroy all creatures instead.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tuan Duong Chu

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.