Live Play Data

Basalt Monolith

· Artifact · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1459

Decks Running

653

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=293

11%

16%

18%

12%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 22

On curve 30% (48 / 293 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

1459 brought · 517 players

Brought to game

1459

Ever drawn

375

Reached battlefield

293

Still on board at game end

228

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=265) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=903).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=70).

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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

418 instances

2.6%

Library

54.5%

Battlefield

21.8%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 51 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 47 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 38 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 36 decks
5 Urza, Lord High Artificer 28 decks
6 Molecule Man 23 decks
7 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 23 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 22 decks
9 Saruman, the White Hand 12 decks
10 Brago, King Eternal 11 decks

Card text

Basalt Monolith

Artifact

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Double Masters (2XM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.