Live Play Data

Puppet Master, String Puller

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

505

Decks Running

261

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

10%

13%

19%

37%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 21% (8 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

505 brought · 244 players

Brought to game

505

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=62) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=321).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=32).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

123 instances

1.6%

Library

28.5%

Battlefield

41.5%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 187 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 8 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 4 decks
5 Smaug the Magnificent 4 decks
6 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 3 decks
7 Magda, the Hoardmaster 3 decks
8 The Rani 3 decks
9 Vihaan, Goldwaker 3 decks
10 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks

Card text

Puppet Master, String Puller

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Villain

Whenever you attack, goad target creature an opponent controls. It can't block this turn. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever one or more goaded creatures deal combat damage to one of your opponents, create a Treasure token.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Tyler Christopher

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.