Live Play Data

Photon, Mighty Marvel

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

571

Decks Running

295

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

14%

11%

56%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 20% (11 / 80 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

571 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

571

Ever drawn

127

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=67) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=358).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=35).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

136 instances

4.4%

Library

30.9%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 264 decks
2 Director Nick Fury 13 decks
3 Daredevil, Man Without Fear 4 decks
4 Monica Rambeau // Photon, Living Light 2 decks
5 Thor, God of Thunder 2 decks
6 Arni Metalbrow 1 decks
7 Cleon, Merry Champion 1 decks
8 Gavi, Nest Warden 1 decks
9 Kwia Vigorbloom 1 decks
10 Loki, God of Lies 1 decks

Card text

Photon, Mighty Marvel

Legendary Creature — Human Hero

Flying Whenever Photon deals combat damage to a player, add that much mana of any one color. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tran Nguyen

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.