Live Play Data

The Thing, Ben Grimm

· Legendary Creature — Human Hero · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

300

Decks Running

113

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

14%

55%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 43% (8 / 42 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

300 brought · 102 players

Brought to game

300

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 43% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=34) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=190).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=34).

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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +27.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

4.9%

Library

22.0%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 24 decks
2 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 18 decks
3 The Fantastic Four 14 decks
4 Mister Fantastic 10 decks
5 Hulk, Gamma Goliath 4 decks
6 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 4 decks
7 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 3 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
9 Storm, Windrider 3 decks
10 Thanos, the Mad Titan 3 decks

Card text

The Thing, Ben Grimm

Legendary Creature — Human Hero

Trample Whenever one or more Heroes you control deal damage to a player, put two +1/+1 counters on The Thing.

7 / 7

Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Gintas Galvanauskas

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.