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Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

6085

Decks Running

3098

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

1436 instances

2.6%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

49.6%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 222 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 129 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 87 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 86 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 64 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 53 decks
7 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 43 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 36 decks
9 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 36 decks
10 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 31 decks

The "good card" funnel

6087 brought · 2167 players

Brought to game

6087

Ever drawn

1323

Reached battlefield

717

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=566) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3362).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=456).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=717

18%

48%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 4% (20 / 717 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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.