Live Play Data

Crimson Cowl, Master of Evil

· Legendary Creature — Human Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

100

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

22%

17%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 30% (5 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

100 brought · 43 players

Brought to game

100

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -12.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=20) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=58).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.1pp to +30.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

31 instances

35.5%

Battlefield

38.7%

Graveyard

16.1%

Exile

9.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 18 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 7 decks
3 Madame Hydra 4 decks
4 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 3 decks
5 Thanos, the Mad Titan 3 decks
6 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 2 decks
7 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 2 decks
8 Citizen V, Helmut Zemo 1 decks
9 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 decks
10 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 1 decks

Card text

Crimson Cowl, Master of Evil

Legendary Creature — Human Villain

Whenever one or more nontoken Villains you control attack a player, you create a 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Miguel Mercado

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.