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Basilisk Collar

· Artifact — Equipment · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

1036

Decks Running

528

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

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

Final zone distribution

218 instances

1.4%

Library

69.7%

Battlefield

14.7%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 41 decks
2 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 26 decks
3 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 26 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 15 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 14 decks
6 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 14 decks
7 Galea, Kindler of Hope 7 decks
8 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
9 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 7 decks
10 Wolverine, Best There Is 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1038 brought · 431 players

Brought to game

1038

Ever drawn

207

Reached battlefield

180

Still on board at game end

152

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=157) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=641).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +5.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=180

23%

14%

11%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 23% (42 / 180 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

1590 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.