Live Play Data

Hooded Hydra

· Creature — Snake Hydra · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

322

Decks Running

129

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

13%

63%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

322 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

322

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 30% 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.

≥ -7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=29) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=227).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=34).

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 +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.1pp to +25.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

5.3%

Library

12.0%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 17 decks
2 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 14 decks
3 Blech, Loafing Pest 11 decks
4 Kaust, Eyes of the Glade 8 decks
5 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 6 decks
6 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
7 Fynn, the Fangbearer 4 decks
8 Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods 4 decks
9 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 4 decks
10 Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer 3 decks

Card text

Hooded Hydra

Creature — Snake Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it. Morph {3}

As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chase Stone

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.