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Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard // Legendary Creature — God · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

113

In Decks

749

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn

Legendary Creature — Elder Wizard

Whenever you cast a legendary spell, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. Hero's Sundering — {7}

: Exile target nonland permanent. Transform Venat. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

Legendary Creature — God

Indestructible Blessing of Light — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control. Until your next turn, it gains indestructible. If that creature is legendary, draw a card.

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Final Fantasy (FIN) · Rare · Illustrated by Colin Boyer

Final zone distribution

80 instances

3.8%

Library

40.0%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 20 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 16 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 10 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 8 decks
5 Atreus, Impulsive Son 6 decks
6 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 6 decks
7 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 4 decks
8 Aerith Gainsborough 3 decks
9 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 3 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=47) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=16) — 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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=50

20%

16%

10%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (10 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

50 of 100 times cast 50%

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.