Live Play Data

Black Market Connections

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

16%

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

11021

Decks Running

4723

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1655

26%

14%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 31% (427 / 1655 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

11021 brought · 2933 players

Brought to game

11021

Ever drawn

2619

Reached battlefield

1655

Still on board at game end

1289

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=1513) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=6941).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=874).

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 +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +11.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2951 instances

2.8%

Library

43.7%

Battlefield

23.1%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 349 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 160 decks
3 Edgar Markov 122 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 94 decks
5 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 80 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 80 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 79 decks
8 Edward Kenway 54 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 52 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 51 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.