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Artisan of Kozilek card art
Live Play Data

Artisan of Kozilek

{9} · Creature — Eldrazi · Commander Masters (CMM)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1320
Decks Running
614
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
58%
Format

First-cast turn

n=178
1%
T1
1%
T2
1%
T3
4%
T4
15%
T5
62%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19
On curve 83% (22 / 178 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1321 brought · 541 players
Brought to game
1321
Ever drawn
306
Reached battlefield
178
Still on board at game end
99

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=153) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=834).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=115).

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 +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +10.3pp to +26.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

328 instances
4.0%
Library
30.2%
Battlefield
23.2%
Graveyard
7.3%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Artisan of Kozilek card

Artisan of Kozilek

{9}
Creature — Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
10 / 9
Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Felix

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.