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The Thing

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

132

Decks Running

In Decks

394

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

The Thing

Legendary Creature — Human Hero

Trample At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, put four +1/+1 counters on The Thing. Whenever The Thing attacks, you may pay {R}

. When you do, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents you control.

5 / 5

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Darius Zablockis

Final zone distribution

73 instances

5.5%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

5.5%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 28 decks
2 Invisible Woman 9 decks
3 The Thing 6 decks
4 Human Torch 3 decks
5 The Fantastic Four 3 decks
6 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2 decks
7 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 1 decks
8 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 1 decks
9 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 1 decks
10 Leonardo, the Balance 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

132 brought · 51 players

Brought to game

132

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=15) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=75).

Observed gap +19.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +43.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

16 of 100 times cast 16%

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

Frequently Asked

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.