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Zulaport Cutthroat

· Creature — Human Rogue Ally · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

1427

Decks Running

752

In Decks

5447

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Zulaport Cutthroat

Creature — Human Rogue Ally

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

1 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

Final zone distribution

393 instances

2.0%

Library

32.1%

Battlefield

43.0%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 86 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 50 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 38 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 35 decks
5 Hazel of the Rootbloom 31 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 17 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 14 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 14 decks
9 Silverquill, the Disputant 12 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1433 brought · 634 players

Brought to game

1433

Ever drawn

354

Reached battlefield

278

Still on board at game end

126

Once cast, 45% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=261) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=880).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=69) — 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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=278

15%

12%

16%

36%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 20% (42 / 278 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

1355 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.