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Live Play Data

Manaform Hellkite

{2} {R} {R} · Creature — Dragon · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
550
Decks Running
246
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=89
0%
T1
0%
T2
8%
T3
9%
T4
16%
T5
53%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 17% (8 / 89 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

550 brought · 220 players
Brought to game
550
Ever drawn
137
Reached battlefield
89
Still on board at game end
45

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=82) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=353).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=45).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances
3.9%
Library
29.2%
Battlefield
33.8%
Graveyard
9.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Manaform Hellkite card

Manaform Hellkite

{2} {R} {R}
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.
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Andrew Mar

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.