Live Play Data

Austere Command

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

11%

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

3612

Decks Running

1749

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=483

10%

65%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 33% (92 / 483 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

3617 brought · 1354 players

Brought to game

3617

Ever drawn

838

Reached battlefield

483

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=447) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2339).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=321).

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 +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

924 instances

4.5%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

49.4%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 200 decks
2 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 146 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 57 decks
4 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 33 decks
5 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 28 decks
6 Dr. Madison Li 26 decks
7 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 19 decks
8 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 19 decks
9 Lorehold, the Historian 18 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 16 decks

Card text

Austere Command

Sorcery

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Taurin Clarke

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.