Live Play Data

Heroic Return

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

572

Decks Running

305

Median Cast Turn

9.0

Drawn → Played

36%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

60%

T6-9

40%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 22

On curve 14% (6 / 42 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 12%

The "good card" funnel

572 brought · 289 players

Brought to game

572

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=38) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=363).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=63).

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 -0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

126 instances

3.2%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

38.1%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 278 decks
2 Director Nick Fury 10 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4 decks
4 The Queen of Dale 2 decks
5 Captain America, Wings of Freedom 1 decks
6 Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger 1 decks
7 Gwen Stacy // Ghost-Spider 1 decks
8 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 1 decks
9 Liliana the Faultless 1 decks
10 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 1 decks

Card text

Heroic Return

Instant

This spell costs {2}

less to cast if a creature is attacking you. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a Hero enters this way, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by David Seeley

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.