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Fight for the Throne

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

407

Decks Running

185

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

Fight for the Throne

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. When the creature an opponent controls dies this turn, if you control your commander, you become the monarch.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Le Vuong

Final zone distribution

83 instances

2.4%

Battlefield

69.9%

Graveyard

1.2%

Exile

26.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 158 decks
2 Kwia Vigorbloom 2 decks
3 Neyith of the Dire Hunt 2 decks
4 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 2 decks
5 Strong, the Brutish Thespian 2 decks
6 Beorn the Fierce 1 decks
7 Blor the Impervious 1 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
9 Chevill, Bane of Monsters 1 decks
10 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

407 brought · 172 players

Brought to game

407

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=45) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=234).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=57

21%

19%

44%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 2% (1 / 57 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.