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Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

112

In Decks

585

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

56 instances

1.8%

Library

26.8%

Battlefield

26.8%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 88 decks
2 Alisaie Leveilleur 2 decks
3 Indominus Rex, Alpha 2 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 2 decks
5 Ureni of the Unwritten 2 decks
6 Acolyte of Bahamut 1 decks
7 Alphinaud Leveilleur 1 decks
8 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
9 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 1 decks
10 Hraesvelgr of the First Brood 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=28) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=132).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

17%

41%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 21

On curve 31% (5 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

29 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.