Live Play Data

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1099

Decks Running

465

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=225

16%

15%

12%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 23% (37 / 225 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1099 brought · 402 players

Brought to game

1099

Ever drawn

265

Reached battlefield

189

Still on board at game end

145

Once cast, 77% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=171) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=693).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=72).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

300 instances

3.0%

Library

48.3%

Battlefield

17.7%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 38 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 20 decks
3 Hope Estheim 19 decks
4 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 18 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 17 decks
6 Giada, Font of Hope 17 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 17 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 11 decks
9 Zur the Enchanter 11 decks
10 Aerith Gainsborough 9 decks

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

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 subset of that corpus.