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Nyxborn Hydra

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

188

Decks Running

In Decks

562

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

42 instances

7.1%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

21.4%

Graveyard

38.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zaxara, the Exemplary 16 decks
2 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 9 decks
3 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 8 decks
4 Tadeas, Juniper Ascendant 7 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 4 decks
6 Polukranos Reborn // Polukranos, Engine of Ruin 3 decks
7 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 3 decks
8 Rosheen, Roaring Prophet 3 decks
9 Sovereign Okinec Ahau 3 decks
10 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

188 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

188

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=21) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=130).

Observed gap +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +38.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

17%

48%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

23 of 100 times cast 23%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.