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Instant
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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)
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Lightning Strike
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Instant
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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
110
Decks Running
57
In Decks
464
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
30 instances6.7%
Library
6.7%
Battlefield
76.7%
Graveyard
10.0%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Fire Lord Azula
12 decks
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2
Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk
3 decks
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3
Krenko, Mob Boss
3 decks
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4
Iroh, Tea Master
2 decks
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5
Roxanne, Starfall Savant
2 decks
-
6
Ares, God of War
1 decks
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7
Captain America, First Avenger
1 decks
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8
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
1 decks
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9
Gandalf the Grey
1 decks
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10
Heartless Hidetsugu
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
111 brought · 53 playersBrought to game
111
Ever drawn
27
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -11.8pp
Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=20) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=79).
Observed gap +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval -11.8pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=20
5%
T1
5%
T2
5%
T3
5%
T4
10%
T5
50%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
5
· P75
9
· max
14
On curve
10%
(1 / 20 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
20 of 100 times cast
20%
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.