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Genesis Hydra

· Creature — Plant Hydra · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

254

Decks Running

126

In Decks

893

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Genesis Hydra

Creature — Plant Hydra

When you cast this spell, reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle the rest into your library. This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

Final zone distribution

64 instances

7.8%

Library

26.6%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 23 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 13 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 9 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 6 decks
5 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
6 Yuma, Proud Protector 5 decks
7 Helga, Skittish Seer 4 decks
8 Shalai and Hallar 4 decks
9 Animar, Soul of Elements 3 decks
10 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

254 brought · 118 players

Brought to game

254

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=30) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

61%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.