Live Play Data

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2732

Decks Running

990

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=520

14%

15%

40%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 18% (72 / 520 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

2732 brought · 824 players

Brought to game

2732

Ever drawn

640

Reached battlefield

456

Still on board at game end

358

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=420) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1755).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=168).

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 +15.7pp; 95% confidence interval +11.0pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

720 instances

2.9%

Library

49.7%

Battlefield

16.3%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kwia Vigorbloom 61 decks
2 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 61 decks
3 Hope Estheim 46 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 40 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 34 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 33 decks
7 Kratos, Stoic Father 31 decks
8 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 29 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 28 decks
10 Sythis, Harvest's Hand 26 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.