Live Play Data

Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

230

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

16%

43%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 24% (6 / 37 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

230 brought · 85 players

Brought to game

230

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 13% of the time (n=31) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=134).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=23).

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 -3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -15.9pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

4.5%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 26 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 18 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 12 decks
4 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 6 decks
5 Madame Hydra 5 decks
6 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 4 decks
7 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 4 decks
8 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 3 decks
9 Baron Helmut Zemo 2 decks
10 The Serpent Society 2 decks

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

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.