Live Play Data

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

· Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

959

Decks Running

418

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=154

10%

15%

62%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 94% (6 / 154 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

959 brought · 365 players

Brought to game

959

Ever drawn

227

Reached battlefield

131

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.

≥ +8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=115) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=607).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=92).

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 +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval +8.7pp to +26.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

252 instances

4.8%

Library

31.7%

Battlefield

18.7%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 119 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 53 decks
3 Molecule Man 35 decks
4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 19 decks
5 The Notary Hobbits 17 decks
6 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite 7 decks
7 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter 7 decks
8 Azusa, Lost but Seeking 6 decks
9 Flubs, the Fool 6 decks
10 Omnath, Locus of the Void 6 decks

Card text

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Aleksi Briclot

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.