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Kozilek, the Great Distortion

· Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

1039

Decks Running

478

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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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, 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

Final zone distribution

207 instances

1.9%

Library

41.1%

Battlefield

11.6%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1039 brought · 421 players

Brought to game

1039

Ever drawn

194

Reached battlefield

105

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=78) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=585).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=56).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=125

17%

62%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 95% (4 / 125 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.