Card Preview

Shock

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

521

Decks Running

237

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Shock

Instant

Shock deals 2 damage to any target.

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

Final zone distribution

110 instances

2.7%

Library

9.1%

Battlefield

61.8%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 13 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 10 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 9 decks
5 Cosmic Spider-Man 7 decks
6 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus 7 decks
7 Urabrask // The Great Work 7 decks
8 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 6 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary 6 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

521 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

521

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=59) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=322).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=25).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=74

19%

18%

31%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 4% (3 / 74 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.