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· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

559

Decks Running

308

In Decks

1926

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

147 instances

4.8%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

67.3%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 70 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 25 decks
3 Mister Fantastic 22 decks
4 Gluntch, the Bestower 12 decks
5 Iroh, Tea Master 7 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
7 Invisible Woman 6 decks
8 Queen Marchesa 6 decks
9 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard 5 decks
10 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

559 brought · 279 players

Brought to game

559

Ever drawn

134

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=85) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=352).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=40) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=90

18%

43%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 13% (6 / 90 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

90 of 100 times cast 90%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.