Live Play Data

Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

305

Decks Running

118

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

24%

12%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 47% (4 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 7%

The "good card" funnel

305 brought · 107 players

Brought to game

305

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=32) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=30).

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 +18.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +34.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances

1.4%

Library

23.2%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

42.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 30 decks
2 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 12 decks
3 The Astonishing Ant-Man 5 decks
4 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 4 decks
5 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 4 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 4 decks
7 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 3 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 2 decks
10 Hulk, Gamma Goliath 2 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.