Live Play Data

Helping Hand

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

528

Decks Running

199

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

16%

11%

56%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 62 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

528 brought · 186 players

Brought to game

528

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=58) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=337).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=44).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +22.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

4.6%

Library

6.1%

Battlefield

48.1%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Massimo, the Magician 26 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 9 decks
3 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 7 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 7 decks
5 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 5 decks
6 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 4 decks
7 The Queen of Dale 4 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 3 decks
9 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
10 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener 3 decks

Card text

Helping Hand

Sorcery

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.