Live Play Data

Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist

· Legendary Creature — Gamma Doctor Hero · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

133

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

133 brought · 56 players

Brought to game

133

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=15) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=90).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +44.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

27 instances

25.9%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

33.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 17 decks
2 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6 decks
3 The Astonishing Ant-Man 4 decks
4 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 3 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 3 decks
6 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
7 Hulk, Gamma Goliath 2 decks
8 Storm, Windrider 2 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks
10 Bumi, Unleashed 1 decks

Card text

Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist

Legendary Creature — Gamma Doctor Hero

If you would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent instead. {T}

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Doc Samson's power.

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.