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Damocles Base, Sword of Kang

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

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Times Brought

435

Decks Running

220

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

97 instances

21.6%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

32.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 191 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 9 decks
3 Edward Kenway 3 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 3 decks
5 Thanos, the Mad Titan 2 decks
6 Aveline de Grandpré 1 decks
7 Bontu the Glorified 1 decks
8 Bullseye, Death Dealer 1 decks
9 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
10 Edgar Markov 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

435 brought · 212 players

Brought to game

435

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.

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=34) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=219).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (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 -0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

22%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 33% (10 / 46 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.