Live Play Data

Forsaken Monument

· Legendary Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

866

Decks Running

402

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

39% of games where Forsaken Monument resolved ended in a win for the caster, a +16.0 percentage-point lift over the 23% baseline seen when the card never left the library.

Forsaken Monument is a niche powerhouse. It appears in 2% of the 19725 Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live, almost exclusively in colorless or Eldrazi-heavy shells where its three abilities compound one another.

The cast-vs-library win-rate gap is the headline: 39% when cast against 23% when it stayed buried, a +16.0 pp lift on a sample of 149 cast participations and 553 library participations. Both buckets are well above 15 observations, so this is more than a directional signal. It reads as a consistent correlation between resolving this card and winning. Cause and effect are entangled with deck quality, but the pattern is robust so far.

Commanders like Zhulodok, Void Gorger and Ulalek, Fused Atrocity lead the top-commander list, confirming the card's home in big-colorless and Eldrazi strategies. Its median cast turn of 6.0 reflects a five-mana cost that players routinely accelerate past or ramp into early.

At a glance

2% of tracked Commander decks include Forsaken Monument
39% win rate in games where Forsaken Monument was cast
+16.0pp win-rate lift over the baseline when the card stayed in the library
T6.0 median first-cast turn, often accelerated through ramp
77% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
80% of drawn copies reached the battlefield before the game ended

First-cast turn

n=164

10%

24%

44%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 46% (39 / 164 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

866 brought · 340 players

Brought to game

866

Ever drawn

206

Reached battlefield

164

Still on board at game end

127

80%

Of 866 Forsaken Monuments brought to games, 206 were drawn, 164 of those were cast, and the majority remained on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ +8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=149) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=553).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=42) — 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 +16.0pp; 95% confidence interval +8.2pp to +23.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

230 instances

2.2%

Library

55.2%

Battlefield

18.3%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

The vast majority of Forsaken Monument copies never leave the library, which is expected for a singleton in a 100-card deck with a narrow archetype fit. The cards that do move show strong battlefield persistence.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 74 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 62 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 31 decks
4 Molecule Man 25 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 15 decks
6 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 12 decks
7 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 12 decks
8 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 9 decks
9 Karn, Legacy Reforged 8 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 8 decks

The top-commander list is spread across 340 unique players with the heaviest single contributor accounting for just 24% of instances, pointing to genuine breadth rather than a small cluster of power users driving the numbers.

Card text

Forsaken Monument

Legendary Artifact

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}

, add an additional {C}

. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Piotr Dura

Frequently Asked

How often is Forsaken Monument drawn in a Commander game?

Across 837 tracked games where Forsaken Monument was in a deck, it was drawn 24% of the time. That is typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of the 206 instances that reached a player's hand, 80% were cast before the game ended. The remainder were largely a game-length effect: copies drawn late in a finished game.

What turn does Forsaken Monument typically hit the battlefield?

Median first-cast turn is 6.0, with the interquartile range spanning turns 5 through 7. The card has a mana value of 5, so many casts land right at or just past the curve. About 46% of first casts land exactly on curve, and a meaningful cluster of casts arrive ahead of schedule thanks to the colorless ramp that Forsaken Monument itself rewards.

Does casting Forsaken Monument actually help you win?

The data shows a +16.0 percentage-point win-rate lift when comparing 149 cast participations (39% win rate) against 553 library participations (23% win rate). Both sample buckets are large enough to treat this as a consistent signal rather than noise. The lift likely reflects deck quality, ramp density, and the card's genuine game-ending potential together, not a clean causal claim.

How sticky is Forsaken Monument once it resolves?

77% of cast copies finish the game still on the battlefield. As a Legendary Artifact with no innate protection, that stickiness reflects the typical Commander environment: targeted removal is spread thin across four players, so a resolved five-drop often sticks long enough to matter. Graveyard and exile endings do occur, most often through board wipes.

Which commanders run Forsaken Monument most?

Zhulodok, Void Gorger and Ulalek, Fused Atrocity lead by raw deck count in the tracked dataset, followed by Molecule Man and Ultron, Artificial Malevolence. The pattern is consistent: the card concentrates in colorless and artifact-heavy shells where its mana-doubling trigger and +2/+2 bonus for colorless creatures both fire regularly. Multicolor commanders on the list tend to lean heavily into colorless creature packages.

Is Forsaken Monument legal in Commander?

Yes. Forsaken Monument is legal and unrestricted in Commander, as well as in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and Duel Commander. It is not legal in Standard, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. Its colorless color identity means it can slot into any Commander deck, not just dedicated colorless builds, though its abilities scale most with colorless-creature and colorless-mana strategies.