Live Play Data

Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

22%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

11096

Decks Running

5056

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1617

13%

58%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 3% (34 / 1617 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

11101 brought · 3101 players

Brought to game

11101

Ever drawn

2792

Reached battlefield

1617

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=1488) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=6844).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=1067).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3167 instances

3.6%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

54.8%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 260 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 170 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 110 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 91 decks
5 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 89 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 85 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 61 decks
8 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 59 decks
9 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 58 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 57 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.