Live Play Data

Cephalid Coliseum

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1022

Decks Running

487

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=192

14%

13%

16%

13%

15%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1025 brought · 423 players

Brought to game

1025

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

192

Still on board at game end

142

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=177) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=568).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=96).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

352 instances

3.4%

Library

40.3%

Battlefield

33.5%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 94 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 20 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 18 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
5 Flubs, the Fool 12 decks
6 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 12 decks
7 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 10 decks
8 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 10 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 10 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 10 decks

Card text

Cephalid Coliseum

Land

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}

, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Avon

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.