Live Play Data

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

· Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2822

Decks Running

1014

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=469

13%

60%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 92% (37 / 469 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2822 brought · 798 players

Brought to game

2822

Ever drawn

723

Reached battlefield

455

Still on board at game end

236

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +19.2pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=405) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1779).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=238).

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 +24.2pp; 95% confidence interval +19.2pp to +29.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

780 instances

20.1%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

9.5%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 143 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 86 decks
3 Animar, Soul of Elements 45 decks
4 Molecule Man 42 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of the Void 42 decks
6 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 38 decks
7 The Notary Hobbits 36 decks
8 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 24 decks
9 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 19 decks
10 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 16 decks

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.

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Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Michael Komarck

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.