Live Play Data

Baron Helmut Zemo

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

112

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=93

42%

20%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 46% (39 / 93 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

237

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=27) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=23).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +23.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

64 instances

3.1%

Library

17.2%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

17.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 20 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 16 decks
3 Thanos, the Mad Titan 5 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 4 decks
5 The Master of Lake-town 4 decks
6 Doctor Doom 3 decks
7 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 3 decks
8 Gwenom, Remorseless 3 decks
9 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 3 decks
10 Ultron, Unlimited 3 decks

Card text

Baron Helmut Zemo

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain

Whenever you cast a black spell from your hand, Baron Helmut Zemo connives. Boast — Exile any number of black cards from your graveyard with fifteen or more black mana symbols among their mana costs: Copy those exiled cards. You may cast up to three of the copies without paying their mana costs. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Wero Gallo

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.