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Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

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

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Times Brought

880

Decks Running

428

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

215 instances

14.9%

Library

40.9%

Battlefield

7.0%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 72 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 56 decks
3 Molecule Man 25 decks
4 Animar, Soul of Elements 21 decks
5 The Notary Hobbits 16 decks
6 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 15 decks
7 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 8 decks
8 The Gitrog Monster 8 decks
9 The Infamous Cruelclaw 8 decks
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

881 brought · 371 players

Brought to game

881

Ever drawn

199

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=89) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=488).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=51).

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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=125

10%

11%

61%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 95% (7 / 125 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.