Live Play Data

Goldvein Hydra

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1185

Decks Running

547

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=234

17%

15%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 21

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1185 brought · 489 players

Brought to game

1185

Ever drawn

321

Reached battlefield

233

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=224) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=734).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=81).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

338 instances

5.9%

Library

28.7%

Battlefield

36.7%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 171 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 50 decks
3 Indominus Rex, Alpha 21 decks
4 Magus Lucea Kane 20 decks
5 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 19 decks
6 Helga, Skittish Seer 18 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 16 decks
8 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 14 decks
9 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 14 decks
10 Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes 12 decks

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.