Live Play Data

Hellkite Courser

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1115

Decks Running

418

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=218

13%

20%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 63% (42 / 218 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1116 brought · 379 players

Brought to game

1116

Ever drawn

294

Reached battlefield

218

Still on board at game end

140

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=204) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=686).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=67).

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 +15.8pp; 95% confidence interval +9.0pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

314 instances

3.5%

Library

44.6%

Battlefield

25.5%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 166 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 95 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 39 decks
4 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 18 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 10 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 10 decks
7 Tiamat 8 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 6 decks
9 Atarka, World Render 5 decks
10 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 5 decks

Card text

Hellkite Courser

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.