Live Play Data

Damocles Base, Sword of Kang

· Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

355

Decks Running

198

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

20%

55%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 30% (9 / 44 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

355 brought · 193 players

Brought to game

355

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=37) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=199).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=35).

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 -1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

1.0%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 154 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 13 decks
3 Edward Kenway 6 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 4 decks
5 Aveline de Grandpré 1 decks
6 Bontu the Glorified 1 decks
7 Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 decks
8 Bullseye, Death Dealer 1 decks
9 Edgar Markov 1 decks
10 Gisa and Geralf 1 decks

Card text

Damocles Base, Sword of Kang

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

Flying, deathtouch Whenever Damocles Base deals combat damage to a player, that player faces a villainous choice — They sacrifice a nontoken creature of their choice, or they lose 2 life and you draw two cards. Crew 3

5 / 5

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Anthony Devine

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.