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Arcane Denial

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

1933

Decks Running

1065

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.

Final zone distribution

450 instances

1.8%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

52.2%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 83 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 43 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 38 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 34 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 20 decks
6 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 17 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 16 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 14 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 14 decks
10 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 13 decks

The "good card" funnel

1935 brought · 835 players

Brought to game

1935

Ever drawn

412

Reached battlefield

233

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=184) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=147) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=233

21%

43%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 4% (5 / 233 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

2797 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.