Live Play Data

Apex Devastator

· Creature — Chimera Hydra · Commander Legends (CMR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2066

Decks Running

742

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=361

14%

65%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 94% (25 / 361 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

2070 brought · 653 players

Brought to game

2070

Ever drawn

534

Reached battlefield

361

Still on board at game end

240

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +15.4pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=321) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1275).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=157).

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 +20.9pp; 95% confidence interval +15.4pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

585 instances

3.8%

Library

41.0%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Apex Devastator

Creature — Chimera Hydra

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

10 / 10

Commander Legends (CMR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.