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Live Play Data

Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

{2} {U} · Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
502
Decks Running
257
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
53%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72
1%
T1
3%
T2
11%
T3
13%
T4
11%
T5
50%
T6-9
11%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 15% (8 / 72 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

502 brought · 249 players
Brought to game
502
Ever drawn
135
Reached battlefield
71
Still on board at game end
32

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=59) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=293).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=46).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.1pp to +14.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

140 instances
2.9%
Library
22.9%
Battlefield
46.4%
Graveyard
6.4%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Helmut Zemo, Mastermind card

Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

{2} {U}
Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain
Whenever Helmut Zemo attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to his power from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If you cast a spell this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Helmut Zemo.
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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Bartek Fedyczak

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.