Live Play Data

Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

249

Decks Running

115

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

13%

35%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 33% (7 / 54 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

249 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

249

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=41) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=152).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=16).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +24.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances

30.4%

Battlefield

36.2%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

24.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 49 decks
2 Invisible Woman 27 decks
3 Human Torch 7 decks
4 The Fantastic Four 4 decks
5 The Thing 4 decks
6 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
8 Molecule Man 2 decks
9 Thanos, the Mad Titan 2 decks
10 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks

Card text

Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald

Legendary Creature — Alien Hero

Flying When Silver Surfer enters, you may search your library for a card named Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever Silver Surfer deals combat damage to a player, until the end of your next turn, target creature attacks that player each combat if able.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.