Live Play Data

Leader, Super-Genius

· Legendary Creature — Gamma Scientist Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

303

Decks Running

145

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

30%

37%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 21% (5 / 43 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

303 brought · 135 players

Brought to game

303

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=39) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=178).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=40).

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 +17.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +31.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

94 instances

26.6%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

31.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 78 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 13 decks
3 Thanos, the Mad Titan 11 decks
4 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 8 decks
5 Loki, the Deceiver 7 decks
6 Ultron, Unlimited 6 decks
7 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 3 decks
8 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 2 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 2 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 decks

Card text

Leader, Super-Genius

Legendary Creature — Gamma Scientist Villain

If a creature you control would connive, instead you draw a card, then that creature connives. At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Anthony Devine

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.