Live Play Data

Artisan of Kozilek

· Creature — Eldrazi · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

927

Decks Running

454

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=127

13%

61%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 81% (16 / 127 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

928 brought · 403 players

Brought to game

928

Ever drawn

218

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=117) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=594).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=82).

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 +21.3pp; 95% confidence interval +12.3pp to +30.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

235 instances

3.8%

Library

29.8%

Battlefield

23.0%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Artisan of Kozilek

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.)

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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.