Live Play Data

Basalt Monolith

· Artifact · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2247

Decks Running

990

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=458

11%

19%

17%

12%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 22

On curve 33% (87 / 458 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

2247 brought · 759 players

Brought to game

2247

Ever drawn

583

Reached battlefield

458

Still on board at game end

365

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=419) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1367).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=108).

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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval +9.7pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

645 instances

3.6%

Library

56.6%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 81 decks
2 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 64 decks
3 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 64 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 51 decks
5 Urza, Lord High Artificer 43 decks
6 Molecule Man 34 decks
7 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 33 decks
8 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 28 decks
9 Saruman, the White Hand 17 decks
10 Brago, King Eternal 15 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.