Live Play Data

Goldvein Hydra

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1915

Decks Running

822

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=341

10%

19%

50%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1915 brought · 726 players

Brought to game

1915

Ever drawn

483

Reached battlefield

340

Still on board at game end

138

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=332) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=139).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

515 instances

5.2%

Library

26.8%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Goldvein Hydra

Creature — Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by David Auden Nash

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.