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Leader, Super-Genius

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

162

Decks Running

In Decks

337

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

56 instances

23.2%

Battlefield

33.9%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

32.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 42 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 8 decks
3 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 5 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 5 decks
5 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 4 decks
6 Ultron, Unlimited 4 decks
7 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 2 decks
8 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 1 decks
9 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 decks
10 Kang, Temporal Tyrant 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

162 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

162

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=20) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=83).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +30.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 13% (2 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.