Live Play Data

The Frightful Four

· Legendary Creature — Villain · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

238

Decks Running

114

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

50%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 22% (4 / 32 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

238 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

238

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ -15.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=30) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=137).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=25).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -15.0pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

65 instances

1.5%

Library

16.9%

Battlefield

44.6%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 96 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 4 decks
3 Thanos, the Mad Titan 3 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 3 decks
5 Madame Hydra 2 decks
6 Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer 2 decks
7 Deadpool, Trading Card 1 decks
8 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 1 decks
9 Perrie, the Pulverizer 1 decks
10 The Serpent Society 1 decks

Card text

The Frightful Four

Legendary Creature — Villain

Menace Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, that player loses life equal to that spell's mana value.

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Björn Barends

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.