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Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

431

Decks Running

236

In Decks

1652

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}

: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

5 / 5

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lius Lasahido

Final zone distribution

133 instances

1.5%

Library

52.6%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 19 decks
2 Hope Estheim 12 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 12 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 11 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
6 Heliod, Sun-Crowned 8 decks
7 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 6 decks
8 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 6 decks
9 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
10 Aerith Gainsborough 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

431 brought · 210 players

Brought to game

431

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=74) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=277).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=24) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=79

15%

13%

43%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 20% (12 / 79 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

79 of 100 times cast 79%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.