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Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

171

Decks Running

In Decks

346

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

52 instances

23.1%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

28.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 23 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 9 decks
3 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic 8 decks
4 Thanos, the Mad Titan 7 decks
5 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 4 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
7 Captain N'ghathrod 2 decks
8 Satoru Umezawa 2 decks
9 Ultron, Unlimited 2 decks
10 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

171 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

171

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=98).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=15) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -15.2pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.