Live Play Data

Doom Blade

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

315

Decks Running

158

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

14%

52%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 2% (1 / 50 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

315 brought · 150 players

Brought to game

315

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=46) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=18).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.9pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

2.5%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

63.7%

Graveyard

11.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 9 decks
2 Doctor Doom 6 decks
3 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 6 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 5 decks
5 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon 4 decks
6 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 4 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 3 decks
8 Ghave, Guru of Spores 3 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 3 decks
10 Phenax, God of Deception 3 decks

Card text

Doom Blade

Instant

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bachzim

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.