Live Play Data

Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

· Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain · Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

389

Decks Running

168

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=82

17%

65%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 68% (17 / 82 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

389 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

389

Ever drawn

104

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ +8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=43) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=244).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=44).

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 +22.4pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances

1.8%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 81 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 24 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 22 decks
4 Thanos, the Mad Titan 21 decks
5 Prowler, Clawed Thief 3 decks
6 Cosmic Spider-Man 2 decks
7 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 2 decks
8 Ultron, Unlimited 2 decks
9 Doc Ock, Evil Inventor 1 decks
10 Jace, Multiverse Architect 1 decks

Card text

Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain

Other Villains you control get +2/+2. Your maximum hand size is eight. At the beginning of your end step, if you have fewer than eight cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

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Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Xabi Gaztelua

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.