Live Play Data

Shock

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

317

Decks Running

169

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

11%

67%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 2% (1 / 57 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

318 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

318

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=54) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=201).

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 +17.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +30.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

84 instances

3.6%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

71.4%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 14 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 7 decks
4 Alania, Divergent Storm 6 decks
5 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks
6 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 5 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 5 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
9 Cosmic Spider-Man 4 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 4 decks

Card text

Shock

Instant

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Common · Illustrated by Piotr Dura

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.