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Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

· Legendary Creature — Horror · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

134

In Decks

995

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Legendary Creature — Horror

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

Final zone distribution

71 instances

1.4%

Library

38.0%

Battlefield

28.2%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 46 decks
2 Umbris, Fear Manifest 12 decks
3 Satoru Umezawa 11 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 10 decks
5 Goro-Goro and Satoru 7 decks
6 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 5 decks
7 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 4 decks
8 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 2 decks
9 Ant-Man, Elusive Avenger 2 decks
10 Beluna Grandsquall // Seek Thrills 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 127 players

Brought to game

237

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -9.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=40) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=18) — 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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.8pp to +19.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=42

21%

12%

10%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 24% (9 / 42 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

42 of 100 times cast 42%

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.