Live Play Data

Luke Cage, Hero for Hire

· Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Hero · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=16

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

139 brought · 61 players

Brought to game

139

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=16) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=105).

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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +36.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

27 instances

48.1%

Battlefield

18.5%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

29.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Daredevil, Man Without Fear 9 decks
2 Captain America, Team Leader 7 decks
3 Knuckles the Echidna 7 decks
4 Smaug the Magnificent 6 decks
5 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 4 decks
6 Vihaan, Goldwaker 4 decks
7 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 2 decks
8 Arni Metalbrow 1 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 1 decks

Card text

Luke Cage, Hero for Hire

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Hero

Trample At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mateus Manhanini

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.