First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023)

All 4 prints

Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #135, 2026
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #5, 2026
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #70, 2026
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) #17, 2023

Helping Hand

Sorcery

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In the last 30 days 0.3% of Standard decks played it (4 of 1419). Most played in WR (unclassified). In the last 30 days 0.2% of Pioneer decks played it (1 of 408). Most played in WUR (unclassified).

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Helping Hand in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS), Premier Draft	53.8%	-1.6	-1.8	10221
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS), Sealed	52.0%	-3.8	-5.0	629
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Premier Draft	52.7%	-2.7	-1.8	10755
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Sealed	50.3%	-5.3	-3.1	813

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Staple

Duel Commander staples: main deck, 3% of decks (#659)
White, Sorceries, Recursion

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Combos

1 combo from Commander Spellbook.

Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Eternal Witness + Helping Hand + Phyrexian Altar

Legality

Constructed

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Not legal
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Standard Other periods →

In 4 of 1419 decks (0.3%).

Share of decks

0.3%

= vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

4 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.8

in the main deck

Win rate

–

0 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
WR (unclassified)	6.4%	1%
WUBR (unclassified)	3.7%	2%
WU (unclassified)	3.7%	2%
WUB (unclassified)	0.4%	17%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Hallowed Fountain	75%	4.3

Best win rate

No challenge results yet.

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
WUBR Arena ranked player, 26 Oct	2 main
WUB Tom Ross, 24 Oct	4 main	#112
WR Arena ranked player, 19 Oct	3 main
WU elvin7, 16 Oct	2 main	#28 2-2

Pioneer Other periods →

In 1 of 408 decks (0.2%).