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Helm of the Host

· Legendary Artifact — Equipment · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

2478

Decks Running

1163

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 Host

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Eli Minaya

Final zone distribution

543 instances

2.0%

Library

49.5%

Battlefield

12.0%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 T'Challa, the Black Panther 171 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 54 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 40 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 39 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 36 decks
6 Aerid Konstrari 17 decks
7 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 16 decks
8 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 16 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 14 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

2494 brought · 923 players

Brought to game

2494

Ever drawn

511

Reached battlefield

314

Still on board at game end

269

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=248) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1446).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=153).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +5.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=314

17%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 32% (53 / 314 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.