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Silver Surfer, Galactus's Herald

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

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Times Brought

204

Decks Running

115

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

45 instances

55.6%

Battlefield

11.1%

Graveyard

15.6%

Exile

17.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 54 decks
2 Invisible Woman 29 decks
3 The Thing 5 decks
4 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
6 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks
7 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards 2 decks
8 Molecule Man 2 decks
9 The Fantastic Four 2 decks
10 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

204 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

204

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -13.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=28) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=110).

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 -3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.9pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

10%

66%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 20% (4 / 41 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.