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Battle Hymn

· Instant · Avacyn Restored (AVR)

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Times Brought

504

Decks Running

264

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

Battle Hymn

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for each creature you control.

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

Final zone distribution

94 instances

1.1%

Library

10.6%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 114 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 64 decks
3 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 7 decks
4 Magnus the Red 6 decks
5 The Great Goblin 5 decks
6 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks
7 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin 4 decks
8 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
10 Kykar, Wind's Fury 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

504 brought · 248 players

Brought to game

504

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=40) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=305).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=31).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=50

16%

28%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 2% (0 / 50 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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.