Live Play Data

Black Market Connections

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

15%

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

5742

Decks Running

2758

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=848

10%

21%

14%

15%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 34% (181 / 848 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

5742 brought · 1837 players

Brought to game

5742

Ever drawn

1355

Reached battlefield

848

Still on board at game end

653

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=789) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3594).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=461).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1523 instances

2.8%

Library

42.9%

Battlefield

23.4%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 240 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 106 decks
3 Edgar Markov 71 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 62 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 57 decks
6 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 50 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 41 decks
8 Edward Kenway 37 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 36 decks
10 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 34 decks

Card text

Black Market Connections

Enchantment

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Xabi Gaztelua

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.