Live Play Data

Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

276

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

18%

44%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 21

On curve 29% (6 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

276

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=29) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=178).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=30).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

68 instances

2.9%

Library

23.5%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 121 decks
2 Alisaie Leveilleur 3 decks
3 Ureni of the Unwritten 3 decks
4 Alphinaud Leveilleur 2 decks
5 Indominus Rex, Alpha 2 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 2 decks
7 Acolyte of Bahamut 1 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
9 Cynette, Jelly Drover 1 decks
10 Daxos of Meletis 1 decks

Card text

Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, vigilance, ward {2}

Shiva's Aid — When Hraesvelgr enters and whenever you cast a noncreature spell, target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

5 / 5

Final Fantasy Commander (FIC) · Rare · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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.