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Herald of Kozilek

· Creature — Eldrazi Drone · Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)

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Times Brought

206

Decks Running

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

Herald of Kozilek

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.) Colorless spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast.

2 / 4

Battle for Zendikar (BFZ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Johannes Voss

Final zone distribution

37 instances

37.8%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

21.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 54 decks
2 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 9 decks
3 Animar, Soul of Elements 5 decks
4 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain 4 decks
5 Morophon, the Boundless 1 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 1 decks
7 Omnath, Locus of Mana 1 decks
8 Saheeli, the Gifted 1 decks
9 Vraska, Soul of Stone 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

206 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

206

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -20.3pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=16) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 -7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -20.3pp to +4.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

26%

30%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 57% (7 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.