Live Play Data

The Thing

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

204

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=66

18%

56%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 59% (18 / 66 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

204 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

204

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ +8.6pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=26) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=125).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=18).

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 +26.1pp; 95% confidence interval +8.6pp to +43.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

53 instances

5.7%

Library

26.4%

Battlefield

18.9%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mister Fantastic 59 decks
2 Invisible Woman 24 decks
3 The Fantastic Four 8 decks
4 Human Torch 6 decks
5 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 2 decks
6 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2 decks
7 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 1 decks
8 Leonardo, the Balance 1 decks
9 Power Pack 1 decks

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.

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.