Live Play Data

Reed Richards, Smartest Man

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

243

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

14%

24%

48%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 59% (5 / 29 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

243 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

243

Ever drawn

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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=26) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=29).

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 +21.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +40.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

19.4%

Battlefield

29.9%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

43.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Whtz, the Bibliophile 29 decks
2 The Astonishing Ant-Man 9 decks
3 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 6 decks
4 The Fantastic Four 5 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 3 decks
6 Mister Fantastic 3 decks
7 Queza, Augur of Agonies 3 decks
8 Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings 3 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks
10 Captain America, Team Leader 2 decks

Card text

Reed Richards, Smartest Man

Legendary Creature — Human Scientist Hero

Reach You have no maximum hand size. The first time you would draw a card each turn except the first card you draw during each of your draw steps, you draw four cards instead.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by David Palumbo

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.