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Doctor Octopus, Master Planner

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

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

38 instances

36.8%

Battlefield

10.5%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

47.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 40 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 13 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 9 decks
4 Thanos, the Mad Titan 9 decks
5 Cosmic Spider-Man 3 decks
6 Ultron, Unlimited 2 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
8 Doc Ock, Evil Inventor 1 decks
9 Dr. Eggman 1 decks
10 Kang Prime 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 77 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=16) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=99).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=15).

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 +2.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.