Live Play Data

Herald of War

· Creature — Angel · Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

569

Decks Running

261

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=82

10%

21%

43%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 41% (17 / 82 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

569 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

569

Ever drawn

128

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -11.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=73) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=370).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=42).

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 -1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.9pp to +8.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

2.2%

Library

30.2%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Herald of War

Creature — Angel

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Angel spells and Human spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Midnight Hunt Commander (MIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.