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Live Play Data

Hammerhead Tyrant

{4} {U} {U} · Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
556
Decks Running
223
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=102
0%
T1
1%
T2
0%
T3
4%
T4
13%
T5
63%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16
On curve 34% (17 / 102 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

556 brought · 206 players
Brought to game
556
Ever drawn
160
Reached battlefield
102
Still on board at game end
52

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=94) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=333).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=55).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +26.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

167 instances
31.1%
Battlefield
31.7%
Graveyard
8.4%
Exile
28.7%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Hammerhead Tyrant card

Hammerhead Tyrant

{4} {U} {U}
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 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.