Live Play Data

Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

22%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

14503

Decks Running

6298

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2137

11%

60%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 1% (20 / 2137 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

14509 brought · 3674 players

Brought to game

14509

Ever drawn

3735

Reached battlefield

2137

Still on board at game end

123

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=1967) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=8903).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=1438).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4221 instances

3.6%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

53.9%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 300 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 203 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 130 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 114 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 110 decks
6 Ms. Bumbleflower 103 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 79 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 73 decks
9 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 68 decks
10 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 67 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 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.