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Blightsteel Colossus

{12} · Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem · Double Masters (2XM)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
383
Decks Running
198
In Decks
1211
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

138 instances
13.8%
Library
37.0%
Battlefield
13.0%
Graveyard
5.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

384 brought · 175 players
Brought to game
384
Ever drawn
124
Reached battlefield
78
Still on board at game end
51

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.

≥ +6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=74) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=46) — 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 +17.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.2pp to +28.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78
1%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
6%
T4
13%
T5
60%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 95% (1 / 78 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 43%
78 of 100 times cast 78%

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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.