Live Play Data

Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

22%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7998

Decks Running

3831

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1189

13%

59%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 3% (28 / 1189 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

8003 brought · 2443 players

Brought to game

8003

Ever drawn

2010

Reached battlefield

1189

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=1102) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=4930).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=749).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2264 instances

3.4%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

56.0%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 218 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 138 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 93 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 72 decks
5 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 72 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 67 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 47 decks
8 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 45 decks
9 Vivi Ornitier 44 decks
10 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 42 decks

Card text

Arcane Denial

Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Common · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.