Live Play Data

Benevolent Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

613

Decks Running

278

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=88

11%

14%

55%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

613 brought · 257 players

Brought to game

613

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=79) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=401).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=60).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

169 instances

3.0%

Library

26.6%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Benevolent Hydra

Creature — Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {T}

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Vincent Christiaens

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.