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Artisan of Kozilek

· Creature — Eldrazi · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

959

Decks Running

444

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

205 instances

2.9%

Library

39.0%

Battlefield

12.7%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 87 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 84 decks
3 Molecule Man 23 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 16 decks
5 The Notary Hobbits 13 decks
6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 13 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 12 decks
8 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 10 decks
9 Braids, Conjurer Adept 7 decks
10 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

962 brought · 406 players

Brought to game

962

Ever drawn

194

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=78) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=516).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=56).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.9pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=109

14%

76%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 92% (8 / 109 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.