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Manaform Hellkite

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

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Times Brought

321

Decks Running

180

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

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

76 instances

2.6%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 85 decks
2 Shiko and Narset, Unified 38 decks
3 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 7 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks
5 Ganax, Astral Hunter 3 decks
6 Veyran, Voice of Duality 3 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks
8 Bria, Riptide Rogue 2 decks
9 Elsha, Threefold Master 2 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

321 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

321

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=29) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=22).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

18%

52%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 16% (4 / 44 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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.