Live Play Data

Black Bolt, Inhuman King

· Legendary Creature — Inhuman Noble Hero · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

233

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 24% (5 / 33 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

233 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

233

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=31) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=143).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 5% (n=21).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +29.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances

1.7%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

28.8%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 52 decks
2 Invisible Woman 27 decks
3 Human Torch 5 decks
4 The Fantastic Four 4 decks
5 The Thing 4 decks
6 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2 decks
7 Alisaie Leveilleur 1 decks
8 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 1 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
10 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 1 decks

Card text

Black Bolt, Inhuman King

Legendary Creature — Inhuman Noble Hero

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Black Bolt gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Lethal Voice — Whenever Black Bolt becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, destroy target nonland permanent that player controls.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.