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Hellkite Courser

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

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Times Brought

1001

Decks Running

423

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

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

Final zone distribution

227 instances

1.8%

Library

49.3%

Battlefield

15.0%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 180 decks
2 Ureni of the Unwritten 87 decks
3 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 45 decks
4 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 21 decks
5 Eshki, Temur's Roar 14 decks
6 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm 13 decks
7 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 5 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 4 decks
9 Atarka, World Render 3 decks
10 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

1002 brought · 371 players

Brought to game

1002

Ever drawn

218

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

112

Once cast, 73% 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.

≥ +3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=123) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=559).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=48).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.2pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=153

18%

45%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 62% (26 / 153 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.