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Helm of the Ghastlord

· Enchantment — Aura · Shadowmoor (SHM)

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Times Brought

169

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

39 instances

2.6%

Library

46.2%

Battlefield

17.9%

Graveyard

12.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 78 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 3 decks
3 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 1 decks
4 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator 1 decks
5 Teval, Arbiter of Virtue 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

169 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

169

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=19) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=95).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +22.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

18%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 14% (4 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.