Herd Baloth card art
Live Play Data

Herd Baloth

{3} {G} {G} · Creature — Beast · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
234
Decks Running
103
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
62%
Format

First-cast turn

n=28
4%
T1
0%
T2
7%
T3
7%
T4
7%
T5
61%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 25% (2 / 28 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

234 brought · 99 players
Brought to game
234
Ever drawn
45
Reached battlefield
28
Still on board at game end
17

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=27) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=165).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=16).

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 +14.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

51 instances
5.9%
Library
33.3%
Battlefield
19.6%
Graveyard
5.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Herd Baloth card

Herd Baloth

{3} {G} {G}
Creature — Beast
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
4 / 4
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory

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 subset of that corpus.