Live Play Data

Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

420

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=86

17%

12%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 22% (15 / 86 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

420 brought · 180 players

Brought to game

420

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=75) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=271).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=24).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -6.4pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

119 instances

4.2%

Library

42.0%

Battlefield

25.2%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 26 decks
2 Kratos, Stoic Father 23 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 16 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 15 decks
5 Aerith Gainsborough 7 decks
6 Atreus, Impulsive Son 7 decks
7 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 7 decks
8 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
9 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 6 decks
10 The Destined Warrior 5 decks

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

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.