Live Play Data

Lightning Helix

· Instant · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

144

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

144 brought · 89 players

Brought to game

144

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -24.0pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=17) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=102).

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 -5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -24.0pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

35 instances

2.9%

Battlefield

54.3%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

28.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 General Ferrous Rokiric 14 decks
2 Lightning, Army of One 12 decks
3 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 7 decks
4 Firesong and Sunspeaker 7 decks
5 Aragorn, the Uniter 5 decks
6 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 4 decks
7 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 3 decks
9 Shiko and Narset, Unified 3 decks
10 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 2 decks

Card text

Lightning Helix

Instant

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Eli Minaya

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.