Live Play Data

Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

· Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

286

Decks Running

129

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

11%

16%

20%

38%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 31% (7 / 45 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

286 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

286

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=30) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=187).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=29).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

71 instances

2.8%

Library

15.5%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 41 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 12 decks
3 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 11 decks
4 Loki, the Deceiver 10 decks
5 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 4 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
7 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 3 decks
8 Ultron, Unlimited 3 decks
9 Captain N'ghathrod 2 decks
10 Eriette, the Beguiler 2 decks

Card text

Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain

Photographic Reflexes — At the beginning of your first main phase, until your next turn, Taskmaster becomes a copy of up to one target creature on the battlefield or creature card in a graveyard, except his name is Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic and he's a legendary Human Mercenary Villain creature.

3 / 5

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Rare · Illustrated by Riccardo Federici

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.