Blightsteel Colossus card art
Live Play Data

Blightsteel Colossus

{12} · Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem · Double Masters (2XM)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1337
Decks Running
572
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
70%
Format

First-cast turn

n=271
2%
T1
5%
T2
6%
T3
11%
T4
15%
T5
50%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 98% (3 / 271 cast on T12) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

1343 brought · 475 players
Brought to game
1343
Ever drawn
388
Reached battlefield
271
Still on board at game end
195

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +15.4pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=247) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=789).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=111).

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 +21.7pp; 95% confidence interval +15.4pp to +28.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

419 instances
11.0%
Library
46.5%
Battlefield
9.8%
Graveyard
6.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.