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Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
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Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
705
Decks Running
308
In Decks
1724
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Card text
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, draw four cards.
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
12 / 12
Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Michael Komarck
Final zone distribution
195 instances21.0%
Library
34.9%
Battlefield
8.2%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 51 decks
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2
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
32 decks
- 3 Molecule Man 24 decks
- 4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 10 decks
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5
Animar, Soul of Elements
9 decks
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6
The Notary Hobbits
9 decks
- 7 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 8 decks
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8
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
6 decks
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9
The Wise Mothman
6 decks
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10
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
5 decks
The "good card" funnel
705 brought · 262 playersBrought to game
705
Ever drawn
170
Reached battlefield
116
Still on board at game end
68
Once cast, 56% 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.
≥ +13.2pp
Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=99) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=442).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=45) — 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 +23.2pp; 95% confidence interval +13.2pp to +33.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=116
3%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
4%
T4
10%
T5
66%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
6
· P75
8
· max
19
On curve
93%
(6 / 116 cast on T10)
Cast same turn as drawn
44%
672 of 300 tracked games
99%
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.