Live Play Data

Nova Flame

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

167

Decks Running

101

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

55%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

167

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=22) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=98).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (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 +21.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +41.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

6.4%

Battlefield

44.7%

Graveyard

12.8%

Exile

36.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 47 decks
2 Invisible Woman 19 decks
3 Human Torch 6 decks
4 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
5 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
6 Magus Lucea Kane 2 decks
7 Red Hulk 2 decks
8 The Scarlet Witch 2 decks
9 The Thing 2 decks
10 Wolverine, Best There Is 2 decks

Card text

Nova Flame

Sorcery

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to each other creature.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Erikas Perl

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.