Live Play Data

Helpful Hunter

· Creature — Cat · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

830

Decks Running

414

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=166

23%

10%

11%

31%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 24% (39 / 166 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

830 brought · 384 players

Brought to game

830

Ever drawn

199

Reached battlefield

166

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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=158) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=555).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=28).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +16.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

215 instances

3.3%

Library

35.8%

Battlefield

40.5%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rin and Seri, Inseparable 95 decks
2 Brago, King Eternal 26 decks
3 Arahbo, Roar of the World 23 decks
4 Olag and Miau, New Friends 16 decks
5 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 15 decks
6 Monk Gyatso 14 decks
7 Arahbo, the First Fang 13 decks
8 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 13 decks
9 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 11 decks
10 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 11 decks

Card text

Helpful Hunter

Creature — Cat

When this creature enters, draw a card.

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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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.