Live Play Data

Nyxborn Hydra

· Enchantment Creature — Hydra · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

281

Decks Running

138

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

10%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

281 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

281

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=36) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=193).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 8% (n=23).

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 +12.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

6.0%

Library

37.3%

Battlefield

23.9%

Graveyard

1.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 25 decks
2 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 11 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 10 decks
4 Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant 10 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 5 decks
6 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 3 decks
7 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 3 decks
8 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 3 decks
9 Rosheen, Roaring Prophet 3 decks
10 Sovereign Okinec Ahau 3 decks

Card text

Nyxborn Hydra

Enchantment Creature — Hydra

Bestow

(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Reach, trample This permanent enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura and has reach and trample.

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Common · Illustrated by Vincent Christiaens

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.