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Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

{4} {U} · Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · Final Fantasy Commander (FIC)
Times Brought
237
Decks Running
141
In Decks
—
Decklist Inclusion
—
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Hraesvelgr of the First Brood card

Hraesvelgr of the First Brood

{4} {U}
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

71 instances
2.8%
Library
35.2%
Battlefield
23.9%
Graveyard
5.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 144 players
Brought to game
237
Ever drawn
68
Reached battlefield
40
Still on board at game end
25

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=24) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=108).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=21).

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 +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41
2%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
10%
T4
7%
T5
61%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19
On curve 20% (3 / 41 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.