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The Squadron Sinister

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

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Times Brought

578

Decks Running

284

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

The Squadron Sinister

Legendary Creature — Human Villain

Flying, haste Other Villains you control get +2/+2 and have flying and haste. Mayhem {3}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for {3}

if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)

5 / 5

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Javier Charro

Final zone distribution

127 instances

1.6%

Library

42.5%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 251 decks
2 Loki, the Deceiver 18 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 7 decks
4 Thanos, the Mad Titan 6 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
6 Flubs, the Fool 1 decks
7 Kwia Vigorbloom 1 decks
8 Nalia de'Arnise 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

578 brought · 264 players

Brought to game

578

Ever drawn

126

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=58) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=39).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=75

11%

69%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 64% (18 / 75 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.