Live Play Data

T'Chaka, Venerable King

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

293

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

18%

14%

20%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 26% (9 / 50 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

293 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

293

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=46) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=171).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

1.4%

Library

33.8%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 130 decks
2 Danitha, New Benalia's Light 1 decks
3 Havi, the All-Father 1 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
5 Okoye, Mighty and Adored 1 decks
6 Shuri, the Black Panther 1 decks

Card text

T'Chaka, Venerable King

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Hero

When T'Chaka enters, mill three cards, then you may put an artifact or land card from among the milled cards into your hand. {3}

, Exile this card from your graveyard: You become the monarch. Activate only if you control your commander.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by L.A. Draws

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.