Live Play Data

Genesis Hydra

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

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Times Brought

531

Decks Running

246

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

18%

57%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

531 brought · 232 players

Brought to game

531

Ever drawn

118

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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=61) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=352).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=44).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances

5.2%

Library

26.7%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 45 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 24 decks
3 Yuma, Proud Protector 14 decks
4 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 12 decks
5 Helga, Skittish Seer 10 decks
6 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 9 decks
7 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 8 decks
8 Magus Lucea Kane 8 decks
9 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 8 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.