Live Play Data

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2065

Decks Running

787

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=414

15%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 24% (63 / 414 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

2065 brought · 665 players

Brought to game

2065

Ever drawn

493

Reached battlefield

360

Still on board at game end

280

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=328) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1322).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=121).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

553 instances

3.3%

Library

50.6%

Battlefield

16.1%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 51 decks
2 Kwia Vigorbloom 47 decks
3 Hope Estheim 35 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 29 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 28 decks
6 Jodah, the Unifier 28 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 25 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 23 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 22 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 20 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.