Live Play Data

Basilisk Collar

· Artifact — Equipment · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4328

Decks Running

1987

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=805

20%

10%

12%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 20% (164 / 805 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 60%

The "good card" funnel

4332 brought · 1522 players

Brought to game

4332

Ever drawn

976

Reached battlefield

805

Still on board at game end

628

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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=731) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2809).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=150).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1085 instances

3.0%

Library

57.9%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 153 decks
2 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 81 decks
3 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 69 decks
4 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 55 decks
5 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 55 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 48 decks
7 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 45 decks
8 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 43 decks
9 Wolverine, Best There Is 35 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 34 decks

Card text

Basilisk Collar

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2}

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Craig J Spearing

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.