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Dragonlord Kolaghan

· Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · Dragons of Tarkir (DTK)

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

101

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Dragonlord Kolaghan

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, haste Other creatures you control have haste. Whenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.

6 / 5

Dragons of Tarkir (DTK) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

Final zone distribution

58 instances

5.2%

Library

41.4%

Battlefield

17.2%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 78 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
3 Rivaz of the Claw 5 decks
4 Tiamat 4 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks
6 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 2 decks
7 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant 1 decks
8 Progenitus 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=22) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=20).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

23%

20%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 69% (5 / 35 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 subset of that corpus.