Live Play Data

Doctor Strange, Surgeon

· Legendary Creature — Human Doctor Hero · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

229

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

13%

10%

48%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 32% (3 / 31 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

229 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

229

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -18.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=23) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=157).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=16).

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 -0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -18.6pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

23.1%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

30.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Doctor Strange, Surgeon

Legendary Creature — Human Doctor Hero

Lifelink If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. At the beginning of each combat, if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Erikas Perl

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.