Live Play Data

Herald of Eternal Dawn

· Creature — Angel · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

891

Decks Running

416

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=135

54%

T6-9

37%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 37% (21 / 135 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

891 brought · 397 players

Brought to game

891

Ever drawn

207

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=119) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=577).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=60).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

224 instances

4.9%

Library

30.8%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 250 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 28 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 11 decks
4 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 8 decks
5 Seluma, Light of Aysen 7 decks
6 Sigarda, Font of Blessings 7 decks
7 Mister Negative 6 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 4 decks
9 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
10 Absolute Virtue 3 decks

Card text

Herald of Eternal Dawn

Creature — Angel

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

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Foundations (FDN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Martina Fačková

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.