Live Play Data

The Frightful Four

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

800

Decks Running

335

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=130

15%

19%

49%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 19% (19 / 130 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

800 brought · 309 players

Brought to game

800

Ever drawn

203

Reached battlefield

130

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=119) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=484).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=62).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

215 instances

3.3%

Library

30.7%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 263 decks
2 The Lord of Pain 12 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 11 decks
4 Thanos, the Mad Titan 9 decks
5 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 6 decks
6 Olinda the Oblivious 5 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 4 decks
8 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent 3 decks
9 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 2 decks
10 Madame Hydra 2 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.