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Heliod, Sun-Crowned

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

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Times Brought

1172

Decks Running

501

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

270 instances

1.5%

Library

61.5%

Battlefield

9.6%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 29 decks
2 Kratos, Stoic Father 22 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 19 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 17 decks
5 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 16 decks
6 Hope Estheim 16 decks
7 Karlov of the Ghost Council 15 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 14 decks
9 Kwia Vigorbloom 14 decks
10 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1173 brought · 435 players

Brought to game

1173

Ever drawn

253

Reached battlefield

196

Still on board at game end

166

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=155) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=670).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=41).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=239

10%

18%

16%

14%

29%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 31% (42 / 239 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.