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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

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

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Times Brought

598

Decks Running

276

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

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

117 instances

1.7%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

12.8%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 64 decks
2 Ingris Stingerquill 20 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 15 decks
4 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 14 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 13 decks
6 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa 11 decks
7 Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos 8 decks
8 The Serpent Society 8 decks
9 Toxrill, the Corrosive 6 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

600 brought · 254 players

Brought to game

600

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=54) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=356).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=82

17%

18%

43%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 45% (15 / 82 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.