Live Play Data

Zellix, Sanity Flayer

· Legendary Creature — Horror · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

628

Decks Running

271

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=102

27%

14%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 35% (28 / 102 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

628 brought · 248 players

Brought to game

628

Ever drawn

140

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=88) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=395).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=44).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

166 instances

3.0%

Library

31.9%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

5.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Legendary Creature — Horror

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. {1}

: Target player mills three cards. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.