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Black Market Connections

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

4546

Decks Running

2275

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

1021 instances

1.9%

Library

51.7%

Battlefield

18.5%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 265 decks
2 Edgar Markov 76 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 61 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 57 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 51 decks
6 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 42 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 35 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 34 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 32 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 32 decks

The "good card" funnel

4547 brought · 1598 players

Brought to game

4547

Ever drawn

942

Reached battlefield

603

Still on board at game end

528

Once cast, 88% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=475) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2576).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=260).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +6.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=603

15%

19%

14%

12%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 37% (117 / 603 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.