Live Play Data

Black Market Connections

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

16%

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

8359

Decks Running

3803

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1262

11%

21%

14%

15%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 34% (259 / 1262 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

8359 brought · 2457 players

Brought to game

8359

Ever drawn

1983

Reached battlefield

1262

Still on board at game end

980

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.

≥ +6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1159) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=5217).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=657).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2246 instances

2.9%

Library

43.6%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 301 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 137 decks
3 Edgar Markov 107 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 85 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 68 decks
6 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 67 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 62 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 44 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 43 decks
10 Mr. House, President and CEO 43 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 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.