Live Play Data

Hammerhead Tyrant

· Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

163

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

44%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

163 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

163

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=19) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=107).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=23).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +35.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

44 instances

22.7%

Battlefield

34.1%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

38.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 43 decks
2 Eshki, Temur's Roar 9 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 4 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 4 decks
5 Sivitri, Dragon Master 3 decks
6 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
7 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 2 decks
8 Keruga, the Macrosage 2 decks
9 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir 2 decks
10 Dragonlord Ojutai 1 decks

Card text

Hammerhead Tyrant

Creature — Dragon

Flying Whenever you cast a spell, return up to one target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value to its owner's hand.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Xavier Ribeiro

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.