Live Play Data

Hydra Broodmaster

· Creature — Hydra · Commander 2021 (C21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

521

Decks Running

210

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=86

15%

63%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 24% (6 / 86 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

521 brought · 202 players

Brought to game

521

Ever drawn

145

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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 36% of the time (n=80) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=334).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=53).

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 +16.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.8pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances

3.2%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

26.6%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Hydra Broodmaster

Creature — Hydra

: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, create X X/X green Hydra creature tokens.

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Commander 2021 (C21) · Rare · Illustrated by Vincent Proce

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.