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Photon, Mighty Marvel

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

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Times Brought

464

Decks Running

246

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

87 instances

3.4%

Library

43.7%

Battlefield

17.2%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain America, Team Leader 227 decks
2 Director Nick Fury 8 decks
3 Daredevil, Man Without Fear 2 decks
4 Scarlet Witch, Chaotic Avenger 2 decks
5 Arni Metalbrow 1 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
7 Captain America, Living Legend 1 decks
8 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 1 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks
10 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

464 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

464

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=33) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=235).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=19).

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 -14.6pp to +3.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

15%

20%

18%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 40% (11 / 55 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.