Live Play Data

Arc Reactor

· Artifact · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

582

Decks Running

223

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=76

20%

25%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 54% (19 / 76 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

583 brought · 196 players

Brought to game

583

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=72) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=400).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=39).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

129 instances

3.9%

Library

46.5%

Battlefield

14.7%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 51 decks
2 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 25 decks
3 T'Challa, the Black Panther 11 decks
4 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 10 decks
5 Molecule Man 8 decks
6 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation 7 decks
7 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 7 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 4 decks
9 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 3 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 3 decks

Card text

Arc Reactor

Artifact

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}

.) This artifact enters tapped. {T}

: Add

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Maxim Ruabtsev

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.