Live Play Data

The War in Heaven

· Enchantment — Saga · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

174

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

21%

52%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 41% (4 / 29 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

174 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

174

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=26) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +32.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

58 instances

3.4%

Library

25.9%

Battlefield

37.9%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

The War in Heaven

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — You draw three cards and you lose 3 life. II — Mill three cards. III — Choose up to three target creature cards with total mana value 8 or less in your graveyard. Return each of them to the battlefield with a necrodermis counter on it. They're artifacts in addition to their other types.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Darren Tan

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.