Live Play Data

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Dragon Skeleton · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

507

Decks Running

239

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

14%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 34% (12 / 83 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

507 brought · 214 players

Brought to game

507

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=62) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=336).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=37).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

112 instances

1.8%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 55 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 20 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 15 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 13 decks
5 The Serpent Society 12 decks
6 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 9 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 7 decks
8 Ingris Stingerquill 6 decks
9 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 6 decks
10 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 5 decks

Card text

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Dragon Skeleton

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {B}

: Skithiryx gains haste until end of turn. {B}

: Regenerate Skithiryx.

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Double Masters (2XM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chippy

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.