Live Play Data

Bolas's Citadel

· Legendary Artifact · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4486

Decks Running

1948

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=577

17%

59%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 45% (95 / 577 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

4486 brought · 1452 players

Brought to game

4486

Ever drawn

1070

Reached battlefield

577

Still on board at game end

419

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=527) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2814).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=428).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval +9.4pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1224 instances

3.7%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 122 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 109 decks
3 Edgar Markov 59 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 56 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 47 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 41 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 34 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 33 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 32 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 31 decks

Card text

Bolas's Citadel

Legendary Artifact

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

War of the Spark (WAR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jonas De Ro

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.