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Lethal Scheme

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

1107

Decks Running

572

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

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

Final zone distribution

261 instances

0.4%

Library

6.1%

Battlefield

58.6%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 191 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 115 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 58 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 40 decks
5 Edgar Markov 19 decks
6 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 12 decks
7 The Great Goblin 8 decks
8 Loki, the Deceiver 7 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
10 Imotekh the Stormlord 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

1107 brought · 515 players

Brought to game

1107

Ever drawn

217

Reached battlefield

138

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=94) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=569).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=50).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=138

14%

13%

56%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 21

On curve 17% (19 / 138 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.