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Blightsteel Colossus

{12} · Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem · Double Masters (2XM)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
595
Decks Running
287
In Decks
1692
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Blightsteel Colossus card

Blightsteel Colossus

{12}
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.
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Double Masters (2XM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

200 instances
13.5%
Library
39.0%
Battlefield
13.0%
Graveyard
5.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

596 brought · 246 players
Brought to game
596
Ever drawn
182
Reached battlefield
120
Still on board at game end
78

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=105) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=321).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=60) — 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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=120
1%
T1
2%
T2
2%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
58%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 97% (1 / 120 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 37%
577 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.