Live Play Data

Heliod, God of the Sun

· Legendary Enchantment Creature — God · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

307

Decks Running

141

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

25%

48%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 16% (4 / 44 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

307 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

307

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=40) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=195).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (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 +12.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

5.3%

Library

42.7%

Battlefield

14.7%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 27 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 20 decks
3 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 17 decks
4 Atreus, Impulsive Son 8 decks
5 Zur, Eternal Schemer 6 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 5 decks
7 Sythis, Harvest's Hand 5 decks
8 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 5 decks
9 Child of Alara 4 decks
10 Odric, Lunarch Marshal 4 decks

Card text

Heliod, God of the Sun

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. (Each {W}

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Other creatures you control have vigilance. {2}

: Create a 2/1 white Cleric enchantment creature token.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.