Live Play Data

Helpful Hunter

· Creature — Cat · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

477

Decks Running

268

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=88

19%

14%

38%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 25% (17 / 88 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

477 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

477

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=76) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=303).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=17).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

121 instances

3.3%

Library

36.4%

Battlefield

35.5%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 56 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 20 decks
3 Arahbo, Roar of the World 14 decks
4 Olag and Miau, New Friends 13 decks
5 Monk Gyatso 11 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 10 decks
7 Arahbo, the First Fang 9 decks
8 Delney, Streetwise Lookout 7 decks
9 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 7 decks
10 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 7 decks

Card text

Helpful Hunter

Creature — Cat

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Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Xabi Gaztelua

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.