Kozilek, Butcher of Truth card art
Live Play Data

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

{10} · Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
2166
Decks Running
823
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
65%
Format

First-cast turn

n=372
1%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
8%
T4
13%
T5
59%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19
On curve 94% (26 / 372 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

2166 brought · 657 players
Brought to game
2166
Ever drawn
554
Reached battlefield
358
Still on board at game end
186

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.

≥ +18.9pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=322) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1372).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=172).

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 +24.5pp; 95% confidence interval +18.9pp to +30.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

595 instances
19.5%
Library
31.3%
Battlefield
8.9%
Graveyard
8.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth card

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

{10}
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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.