Live Play Data

Loki, the Deceiver

· Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

379

Decks Running

214

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

11%

26%

23%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 41% (23 / 87 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

The "good card" funnel

379 brought · 199 players

Brought to game

379

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=33) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=236).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=36).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

1.2%

Library

19.8%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 185 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 16 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 7 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 3 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 1 decks
7 Super-Skrull 1 decks

Card text

Loki, the Deceiver

Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain

Whenever Loki attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target Villain you control, except it isn't legendary and it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step. Whenever one or more Villains you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alexander Mokhov

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.