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Heroic Sacrifice

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

470

Decks Running

253

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

Heroic Sacrifice

Instant

Choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, all damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control is dealt to the chosen creature instead (if it's still on the battlefield). When that creature dies this turn, put its counters on up to one target creature you control and draw a card.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

Final zone distribution

76 instances

2.6%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

59.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 225 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 8 decks
3 Director Nick Fury 5 decks
4 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2 decks
5 Akroma, Vision of Ixidor 1 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
7 Captain America, Living Legend 1 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 1 decks
9 Jared Carthalion, True Heir 1 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

470 brought · 248 players

Brought to game

470

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.8pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=18) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=256).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=27).

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 -4.8pp; 95% confidence interval -16.8pp to +7.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

67%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 10% (1 / 30 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.