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Genesis Hydra

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

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Times Brought

412

Decks Running

211

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

98 instances

2.0%

Library

31.6%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 41 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 22 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 13 decks
4 Yuma, Proud Protector 13 decks
5 Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener 10 decks
6 Otrimi, the Ever-Playful 10 decks
7 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 10 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 9 decks
9 Magus Lucea Kane 7 decks
10 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

412 brought · 197 players

Brought to game

412

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=43) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=249).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=28).

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 -9.3pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=58

26%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.