Live Play Data

Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

22%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3551

Decks Running

1829

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=559

12%

57%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 4% (18 / 559 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

3556 brought · 1256 players

Brought to game

3556

Ever drawn

907

Reached battlefield

559

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=517) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2209).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=319).

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 +4.0pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1015 instances

3.2%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 103 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 62 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 52 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 38 decks
5 Ms. Bumbleflower 35 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 35 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 24 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 23 decks
9 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 23 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 22 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.