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Live Play Data

Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

{5} {U} {B} · Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Villain · Marvel's Spider-Man (SPM)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
556
Decks Running
202
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
52%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=108
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
4%
T4
12%
T5
66%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16
On curve 56% (19 / 108 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

556 brought · 180 players
Brought to game
556
Ever drawn
148
Reached battlefield
77
Still on board at game end
37

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +12.4pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=65) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=350).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=64).

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 +24.4pp; 95% confidence interval +12.4pp to +36.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

162 instances
1.9%
Library
22.8%
Battlefield
40.7%
Graveyard
7.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Doctor Octopus, Master Planner card

Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

{5} {U} {B}
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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.