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

174

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

67%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 59% (6 / 27 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

174 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

174

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ +11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=23) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=108).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 9% (n=17).

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 +31.5pp; 95% confidence interval +11.7pp to +51.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

57 instances

29.8%

Battlefield

29.8%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

28.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 40 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 14 decks
3 Thanos, the Mad Titan 12 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 10 decks
5 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 5 decks
6 Cosmic Spider-Man 2 decks
7 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 1 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 1 decks
10 Perrie, the Pulverizer 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.