Live Play Data

Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

· Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

487

Decks Running

259

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=77

12%

16%

36%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 23% (6 / 77 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

487 brought · 250 players

Brought to game

487

Ever drawn

135

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=72) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=58).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +21.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

142 instances

2.1%

Library

28.2%

Battlefield

31.0%

Graveyard

9.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying and vigilance. Whenever you attack with one or more Birds, scry 2.

2 / 4

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Darius Zablockis

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.