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Hammerhead Tyrant

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

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Times Brought

308

Decks Running

127

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

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.

6 / 6

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

Final zone distribution

60 instances

41.7%

Battlefield

15.0%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

38.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ureni of the Unwritten 73 decks
2 Eshki, Temur's Roar 21 decks
3 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 8 decks
4 The Ur-Dragon 6 decks
5 Sivitri, Dragon Master 5 decks
6 Helga, Skittish Seer 2 decks
7 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 2 decks
8 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks
9 Ganax, Astral Hunter 1 decks
10 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

308 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

308

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=25) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=183).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=21).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

13%

68%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 42% (5 / 31 cast on T6)

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.