Live Play Data

Loyal Retainers

· Creature — Human Advisor · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

152

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

60%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 8% (1 / 25 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

152 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

152

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 28% 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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=88).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=16).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

14.9%

Battlefield

34.0%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

46.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 63 decks
2 Akroma, Vision of Ixidor 1 decks
3 Bruna, the Fading Light 1 decks
4 Dihada, Binder of Wills 1 decks
5 Gerrard, Weatherlight Hero 1 decks
6 Havi, the All-Father 1 decks
7 Karametra, God of Harvests 1 decks
8 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 1 decks
9 Liu Bei, Lord of Shu 1 decks
10 Mog, Moogle Warrior 1 decks

Card text

Loyal Retainers

Creature — Human Advisor

Sacrifice this creature: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.