Live Play Data

Lair of the Hydra

Land · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

685

Decks Running

298

Median Cast Turn

3.5

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=156

26%

15%

10%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 64%

The "good card" funnel

685 brought · 285 players

Brought to game

685

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

156

Still on board at game end

130

Once cast, 83% 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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=141) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=420).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=30).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

208 instances

2.4%

Library

62.5%

Battlefield

19.2%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Lair of the Hydra

Land

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) · Rare · Illustrated by Johannes Voss

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.