Live Play Data

Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

342

Decks Running

182

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

12%

18%

16%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 33% (10 / 57 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

342 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

342

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.

≥ +7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=51) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=198).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=18).

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 +20.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.9pp to +33.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

1.1%

Library

25.3%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 125 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 15 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 13 decks
4 Madame Hydra 5 decks
5 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 4 decks
6 Ultron, Unlimited 4 decks
7 Doctor Doom 2 decks
8 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 2 decks
9 Baron Helmut Zemo 1 decks
10 Bullseye, Death Dealer 1 decks

Card text

Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

Legendary Creature — Human Villain

Villain spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Whenever another Villain you control enters, you may have it connive. Do this only once each turn. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by InHyuk Lee

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.