Live Play Data

Hermes, Overseer of Elpis

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

451

Decks Running

236

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

12%

16%

35%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 23% (5 / 74 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

451 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

451

Ever drawn

129

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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=69) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=262).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=55).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

136 instances

2.2%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

30.9%

Graveyard

8.8%

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.