Live Play Data

Genesis Hydra

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

405

Decks Running

189

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=45

11%

62%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

405 brought · 176 players

Brought to game

405

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=43) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=274).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=37).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +23.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

103 instances

5.8%

Library

25.2%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 34 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 19 decks
3 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 12 decks
4 Yuma, Proud Protector 9 decks
5 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 8 decks
6 Helga, Skittish Seer 8 decks
7 Magus Lucea Kane 8 decks
8 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 6 decks
9 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 6 decks
10 Kirri, Talented Sprout 5 decks

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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.