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Lightning Strike

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

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Times Brought

215

Decks Running

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

Lightning Strike

Instant

Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Common · Illustrated by Toni Infante

Final zone distribution

44 instances

4.5%

Battlefield

54.5%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

34.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 13 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 5 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 3 decks
5 Aragorn, the Uniter 2 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
7 Captain America, Team Leader 2 decks
8 Iron Man, Master of Machines 2 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 2 decks
10 Kess, Dissident Mage 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

215 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

215

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=127).

Observed gap -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -12.5pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

13%

37%

30%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 7% (1 / 30 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

30 of 100 times cast 30%

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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.