Live Play Data

Madame Hydra

· Legendary Creature — Human Villain · Marvel Super Heroes (MSH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

523

Decks Running

272

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=79

22%

11%

48%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 30% (17 / 79 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

523 brought · 249 players

Brought to game

523

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=61) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=311).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=37).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

125 instances

3.2%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

45.6%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 216 decks
2 Thanos, the Mad Titan 24 decks
3 Loki, the Deceiver 16 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 11 decks
5 Ares, God of War 1 decks
6 Bullseye, Death Dealer 1 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 1 decks
9 Super-Skrull 1 decks

Card text

Madame Hydra

Legendary Creature — Human Villain

Whenever you cast a Villain spell, create a 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

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Marvel Super Heroes (MSH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pauline 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.