Live Play Data

Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

683

Decks Running

348

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=117

10%

19%

12%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 31% (22 / 117 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

683 brought · 303 players

Brought to game

683

Ever drawn

177

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=105) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=383).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=49).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

190 instances

1.1%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

38.9%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 244 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 28 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 18 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 14 decks
5 Ultron, Unlimited 9 decks
6 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 8 decks
7 Madame Hydra 5 decks
8 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 3 decks
9 Baron Helmut Zemo 2 decks
10 Doctor Doom 2 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.