Live Play Data

Monologue Tax

· Enchantment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2390

Decks Running

1015

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=395

20%

17%

11%

34%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 29% (78 / 395 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2393 brought · 853 players

Brought to game

2393

Ever drawn

579

Reached battlefield

395

Still on board at game end

306

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=364) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1521).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=158).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

640 instances

3.1%

Library

47.8%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 116 decks
2 Mister Fantastic 57 decks
3 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 48 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 34 decks
5 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 32 decks
6 Vihaan, Goldwaker 32 decks
7 Invisible Woman 31 decks
8 Marneus Calgar 25 decks
9 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 24 decks
10 Mr. House, President and CEO 23 decks

Card text

Monologue Tax

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Vilhelmas Banys

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.