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Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary

· Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

151

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain

Deathtouch Whenever another Villain you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Crossbones. He deals 2 damage to each opponent. This ability triggers only once each turn.

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kevin Sidharta

Final zone distribution

28 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thanos, the Mad Titan 11 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 8 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 8 decks
4 Madame Hydra 5 decks
5 Ultron, Unlimited 2 decks
6 Baron Helmut Zemo 1 decks
7 Bullseye, Death Dealer 1 decks
8 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 1 decks
9 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 1 decks
10 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

89 brought · 39 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -25.1pp

Players who cast this card win 9% of the time (n=16) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=47).

Observed gap -9.0pp; 95% confidence interval -25.1pp to +7.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.