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Helm of the Ghastlord

· Enchantment — Aura · Shadowmoor (SHM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

178

Decks Running

In Decks

496

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Helm of the Ghastlord

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."

Shadowmoor (SHM) · Common · Illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel

Final zone distribution

57 instances

7.0%

Library

22.8%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

178 brought · 90 players

Brought to game

178

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=28) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=97).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=22) — 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 +22.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +43.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

69%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 3% (1 / 29 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.