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Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal

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

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Times Brought

283

Decks Running

149

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

49 instances

44.9%

Battlefield

16.3%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

32.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, Stoic Father 22 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 21 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 18 decks
4 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness 10 decks
5 Aerith Gainsborough 7 decks
6 Dihada, Binder of Wills 5 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 5 decks
8 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 5 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 4 decks
10 Child of Alara 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

283 brought · 143 players

Brought to game

283

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=25) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=168).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

11%

14%

19%

17%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 28% (5 / 36 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.