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Darksteel Monolith

· Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

157

In Decks

1012

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Darksteel Monolith

Artifact

Indestructible Once each turn, you may pay {0}

rather than pay the mana cost for a colorless spell you cast from your hand.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Sergey Glushakov

Final zone distribution

83 instances

3.6%

Library

56.6%

Battlefield

7.2%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 55 decks
2 Molecule Man 18 decks
3 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 18 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 11 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 9 decks
6 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 6 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 4 decks
8 Arcum Dagsson 3 decks
9 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 3 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

312 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

312

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=49) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=189).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15) — 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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +26.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

15%

66%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 85% (7 / 59 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

59 of 100 times cast 59%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.