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Sorcery
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
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Helping Hand
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Sorcery
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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
124
Decks Running
68
In Decks
428
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
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)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez
Final zone distribution
30 instances6.7%
Library
6.7%
Battlefield
56.7%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Massimo, the Magician
5 decks
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2
Ms. Bumbleflower
3 decks
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3
Quintorius, History Chaser
3 decks
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4
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
2 decks
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5
Arabella, Abandoned Doll
2 decks
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6
Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
2 decks
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7
Shay Cormac
2 decks
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8
Tolsimir Wolfblood
2 decks
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9
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
1 decks
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10
Arahbo, the First Fang
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
124 brought · 66 playersBrought to game
124
Ever drawn
24
Reached battlefield
17
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -10.6pp
Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=15) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=82).
Observed gap +15.2pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +40.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
17 of 100 times cast
17%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.