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Basilisk Collar

· Artifact — Equipment · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

3414

Decks Running

1671

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

691 instances

1.2%

Library

68.0%

Battlefield

13.7%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 148 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 115 decks
3 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 70 decks
4 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 68 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 40 decks
6 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 40 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 36 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 29 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 28 decks
10 Wolverine, Best There Is 22 decks

The "good card" funnel

3420 brought · 1322 players

Brought to game

3420

Ever drawn

664

Reached battlefield

554

Still on board at game end

470

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=433) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1938).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=80).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +1.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=554

26%

11%

10%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 26% (145 / 554 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 61%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.