Live Play Data

Battle Hymn

· Instant · Avacyn Restored (AVR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

571

Decks Running

318

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=66

18%

61%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 2% (0 / 66 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

571 brought · 297 players

Brought to game

571

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=58) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=378).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=50).

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 +17.5pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +29.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

130 instances

3.8%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

50.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 117 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 56 decks
3 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 12 decks
4 The Great Goblin 10 decks
5 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 9 decks
6 Magnus the Red 7 decks
7 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician 5 decks
8 Thromok the Insatiable 5 decks
9 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 4 decks
10 Purphoros, God of the Forge 4 decks

Card text

Battle Hymn

Instant

Add

for each creature you control.

Avacyn Restored (AVR) · Common · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.