Live Play Data

Ares, God of War

· Legendary Creature — God Warrior Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

376

Decks Running

147

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=115

29%

24%

13%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 32% (33 / 115 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

378 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

378

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 33% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=64) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=264).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

5.5%

Library

24.2%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ingris Stingerquill 22 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 15 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 12 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 11 decks
5 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 7 decks
6 Tsagan, Raider Warlord 6 decks
7 Kardur, Doomscourge 5 decks
8 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 4 decks
9 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 4 decks
10 Madame Hydra 4 decks

Card text

Ares, God of War

Legendary Creature — God Warrior Villain

Ares attacks each combat if able. Whenever an attacking creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Fesbra

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.