Live Play Data

Lifeblood Hydra

· Creature — Hydra · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

731

Decks Running

330

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=76

13%

62%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

731 brought · 297 players

Brought to game

731

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=69) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=510).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=76).

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 +5.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +16.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

171 instances

2.3%

Library

19.9%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 136 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 51 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 23 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 8 decks
5 Helga, Skittish Seer 8 decks
6 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury 7 decks
7 Magus Lucea Kane 5 decks
8 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 5 decks
9 Hamza, Guardian of Arashin 4 decks
10 Jackal, Genius Geneticist 4 decks

Card text

Lifeblood Hydra

Creature — Hydra

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

0 / 0

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Alex Horley-Orlandelli

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.