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Manaform Hellkite

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

159

Decks Running

101

In Decks

684

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Manaform Hellkite

Creature — Dragon

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X red Dragon Illusion creature token with flying and haste, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. Exile that token at the beginning of the next end step.

4 / 4

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Andrew Mar

Final zone distribution

37 instances

2.7%

Library

24.3%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 56 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 16 decks
3 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 4 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
5 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks
6 Anhelo, the Painter 1 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks
8 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 1 decks
9 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 1 decks
10 Cormela, Glamour Thief 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

159 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

159

Ever drawn

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.

≥ -14.1pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=18) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=111).

Observed gap +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.1pp to +33.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

55%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 15% (2 / 20 cast on T4)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.