Live Play Data

Herald of Secret Streams

· Creature — Merfolk Warrior · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2065

Decks Running

816

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=292

10%

15%

62%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 13% (29 / 292 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

2066 brought · 728 players

Brought to game

2066

Ever drawn

466

Reached battlefield

292

Still on board at game end

172

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=275) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1372).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=162).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

508 instances

3.9%

Library

33.9%

Battlefield

25.8%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Herald of Secret Streams

Creature — Merfolk Warrior

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Sara Winters

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.