Live Play Data

Lethal Scheme

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1985

Decks Running

999

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=263

11%

66%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 5% (8 / 263 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

1985 brought · 867 players

Brought to game

1985

Ever drawn

451

Reached battlefield

263

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=242) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=166).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

544 instances

3.1%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

59.6%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 266 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 202 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 95 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 68 decks
5 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 35 decks
6 Edgar Markov 32 decks
7 Loki, the Deceiver 18 decks
8 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 15 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 12 decks
10 Ultron, Unlimited 11 decks

Card text

Lethal Scheme

Instant

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1}

or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.