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Black Market Connections

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

1546

Decks Running

861

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.

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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

356 instances

1.7%

Library

54.5%

Battlefield

17.4%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 103 decks
2 Edgar Markov 26 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 26 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 25 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 21 decks
6 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 18 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 17 decks
8 Edward Kenway 14 decks
9 Kaalia of the Vast 11 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1547 brought · 670 players

Brought to game

1547

Ever drawn

322

Reached battlefield

214

Still on board at game end

194

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=165) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=914).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=86).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=214

14%

18%

14%

11%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 35% (38 / 214 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.