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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

107

In Decks

749

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

46 instances

47.8%

Battlefield

15.2%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

30.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 24 decks
2 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 9 decks
3 The Serpent Society 6 decks
4 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 5 decks
5 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 4 decks
6 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 4 decks
7 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon 4 decks
8 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 3 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
10 The Mimeoplasm 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=27) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=127).

Observed gap +22.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +40.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

61%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 23% (1 / 31 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.