Live Play Data

Helping Hand

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

219

Decks Running

108

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

14%

10%

66%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 29 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 57%

The "good card" funnel

219 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

219

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=27) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=140).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=15).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

5.6%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Massimo, the Magician 14 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 6 decks
3 Amalia Benavides Aguirre 4 decks
4 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 3 decks
6 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks
8 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks
9 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener 2 decks
10 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 2 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.