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Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

106

Decks Running

In Decks

349

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

36 instances

33.3%

Battlefield

36.1%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

13.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 21 decks
2 Invisible Woman 9 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
4 Human Torch 2 decks
5 Molecule Man 2 decks
6 Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald 2 decks
7 The Fantastic Four 2 decks
8 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds 1 decks
9 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade 1 decks
10 Kang Prime 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

106 brought · 45 players

Brought to game

106

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -13.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=24) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=58).

Observed gap +5.9pp; 95% confidence interval -13.6pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

41%

T6-9

33%

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 26% (1 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.