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Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

· Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

416

Decks Running

211

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

Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

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

Final zone distribution

87 instances

29.9%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

25.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 202 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 3 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 2 decks
4 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
5 Neerdiv, Devious Diver 1 decks
6 Symbiote Spider-Man 1 decks
7 Thanos, the Mad Titan 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

416 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

416

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ -16.5pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=27) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=34).

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 -6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -16.5pp to +3.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

11%

13%

39%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 26% (5 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.