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Lifeblood Hydra

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

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Times Brought

623

Decks Running

293

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

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

Final zone distribution

142 instances

4.2%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

23.9%

Graveyard

0.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 161 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 39 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 21 decks
4 Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury 9 decks
5 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 6 decks
6 Kruphix, God of Horizons 4 decks
7 Primo, the Unbounded 4 decks
8 Helga, Skittish Seer 3 decks
9 Karametra, God of Harvests 3 decks
10 Progenitus 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

623 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

623

Ever drawn

132

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ -2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=50) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=343).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=42).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.1pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=64

14%

22%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.