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Live Play Data

Hellkite Courser

{4} {R} {R} · Creature — Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
456
Decks Running
212
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
77%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=99
0%
T1
3%
T2
2%
T3
10%
T4
19%
T5
60%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 55% (20 / 99 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

457 brought · 193 players
Brought to game
457
Ever drawn
128
Reached battlefield
99
Still on board at game end
60

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=97) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=266).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=25).

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 +19.7pp; 95% confidence interval +9.6pp to +29.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

138 instances
4.3%
Library
43.5%
Battlefield
28.3%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Hellkite Courser card

Hellkite Courser

{4} {R} {R}
Creature — Dragon
Flying When this creature enters, you may put a commander you own from the command zone onto the battlefield. It gains haste. Return it to the command zone at the beginning of the next end step.
6 / 5
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Caio Monteiro

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.