Live Play Data

Hedron Crab

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1686

Decks Running

687

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=313

18%

12%

11%

34%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 18% (57 / 313 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

1686 brought · 628 players

Brought to game

1686

Ever drawn

390

Reached battlefield

313

Still on board at game end

155

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ +5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=282) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=992).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=68).

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 +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

535 instances

1.5%

Library

29.0%

Battlefield

46.5%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 184 decks
2 Homer, the Hermit 96 decks
3 The Mindskinner 41 decks
4 The Wise Mothman 38 decks
5 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 25 decks
6 Phenax, God of Deception 21 decks
7 Hope Estheim 20 decks
8 Captain N'ghathrod 18 decks
9 Sin, Spira's Punishment 18 decks
10 Grolnok, the Omnivore 11 decks

Card text

Hedron Crab

Creature — Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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.